OpenAI Might Have Briefly Added New Custom Instruction Options to ChatGPT 1m43k Technology News

ChatGPT’s new instruction options included the ’s nickname and profession as well as personality traits for the chatbot. 4o5j3u

Written by David Delima | Updated: 10 January 2025 20:06 IST

OpenAI Might Have Briefly Added New Custom Instruction Options to ChatGPT

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Some of the suggested personality traits for ChatGPT include “Gen Z”, “Chatty”, and “witty”

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Custom instructions were added to ChatGPT last year
Custom instructions let s tell the AI how to generate responses
The new options are currently not visible on the chatbot

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OpenAI might have added several new options to its Custom Instructions feature for ChatGPT on Thursday. Several s shared screenshots of these new options in custom instructions that allow s to further personalise the responses generated by ChatGPT. These new options include options to add the 's nickname, profession, as well as personality traits. However, it appears these new options were later removed from the chatbot. It is speculated that OpenAI might have enabled this feature before it was ready to be rolled out.

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Multiple s on X (formerly known as Twitter) posted about the new feature added to ChatGPT. Essentially, it is an expansion of an existing feature dubbed Custom Instruction. As per the screenshots shared by these s, the AI firm added new customisation fields to the tool, allowing s to have granular control over how ChatGPT generates responses.

Custom instructions are grounding tools that eliminate the need to type the same prompt over and over. For instance, if a prefers formal and concise responses with an analytical tonality, they can add this information to the custom instructions menu to ensure that whenever the chatbot responds to a query, it adheres to these rules.

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New custom instruction options on ChatGPT
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So far, these instructions could be added to a single place in the form of a text prompt. But based on the screenshots shared by s on X, it appears that the chatbot added new options that allowed them to better control the responses generated by ChatGPT.

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The s can tell the AI chatbot a nickname for themselves and their profession. Additionally, s can also add several personality traits to ChatGPT such as “witty”, “opinionated”, and “Gen Z”.

It is unclear how these traits shape the chatbot's responses, as Gadgets 360 staff were not able to the presence of the feature, and it was not visible on the chatbot at the time of publishing this story.

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s on X also noted that the feature suddenly vanished after a while. As noted by TechCrunch, OpenAI might have accidentally released the feature before it was ready. It is not clear when the feature might be officially rolled out.

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