[HN Gopher] How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing?
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       How to Get ChatGPT to Stop Apologizing?
        
       Author : ai-gem
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2023-08-11 15:50 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | MildlySerious wrote:
       | Previous discussion[1] 10 days ago with ~250 comments
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       | [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36949931
        
       | leke wrote:
       | It would be a great feature to have a bunch of considerations you
       | could add as a setting. Like, don't apologise, and unless
       | specified use php as the default programming language and MySQL
       | as the default database language.
        
         | dharmab wrote:
         | https://openai.com/blog/custom-instructions-for-chatgpt
        
       | clnq wrote:
       | I wish we could stop it from lecturing me about how unsafe what I
       | do for work is.
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       | I am a SWE and I work close to the metal. ChatGPT is helpful, but
       | it always says I shouldn't do what I'm doing and I should use
       | safer abstractions for my work. I write the low level
       | abstractions, that is my job. Even if I ask it not to, it soon
       | (over a few dozen messages) forgets.
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       | My friend is a doctor and it's the same story. He is always being
       | told to see a qualified doctor about his questions. It just comes
       | off as patronizing.
       | 
       | Sam Altman said a while ago that he believes the future of LLMs
       | involves the user being able to customize them. I hope he hasn't
       | changed his mind. I definitely want a model I can make just give
       | me straight answers without the social responsibility/legal
       | disclaimer attached to each.
       | 
       | Come to think of it... what happened to legal disclaimers buried
       | deep in the EULA? Why are they burned into nearly every answer
       | LLMs (including Claude and Llama2) give us?
        
         | AussieWog93 wrote:
         | If you click on the 3 dots next to your email in the bottom
         | left, you can set "custom instructions" now. Basically, you can
         | tell ChatGPT who you are, as well as how you'd like it to
         | respond.
         | 
         | It's not perfect but it's coming along.
        
         | unlikelytomato wrote:
         | I am encountering this exact same issue. My instructions are
         | repeatedly ignored and it falls back to a "preferred" approach
         | after a single useful response. I have practically memorized
         | the disclaimers attached to the end of every response.
        
       | Havoc wrote:
       | A lot of models seem to lead with some sort of low value add
       | intro. "Great question!..." etc.
        
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