Which custom instruction in ChatGPT could you not live without?
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A user on a developer community forum discussed their evolving use of custom instructions in ChatGPT.…
I used to have relatively extensive custom instructions and frequently defined that it should think through things compactly, increase information density, avoid unnecessary filler sentences, integrate emojis before the punctuation of sentences, avoid hyphens and more.
However, with the current models, I increasingly feel that many of these instructions are no longer needed, so I recently removed everything for tests. Lately, I've only been thinking about whether it makes sense to communicate in some form that initial responses shouldn't always consist of huge text paragraphs, meaning the answers can be a bit more compact and to the point.
On the other hand, I find this hard to generalize and might prefer working with the new memory system for specific cases. Which custom instructions do you currently have implemented, i.e., which user-defined instructions can you not do without?