The Newest ChatGPT Plus Feature

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Here's what we're covering today:

• A breakdown of ChatGPT Plus’s new feature: Custom Instructions

• How to make decisions faster by getting AI to do the heavy lifting

• A sleeping tech giant enters the race

Let’s get to it! 👇

TODAY'S PERSPECTIVE

Breaking down Custom Instructions, ChatGPT Plus’s newest feature

OpenAI recently added Custom Instructions, a way to set default behavior and text across all your chats, promising to give you more control over how the LLM treats your requests.

So how well does it work? Our honest review is that it’s underwhelming.

But - this is likely a first step towards OpenAI's promise that users will be able to set their own rules and behaviors, even when they may strongly disagree.

So, it's worth knowing about and experimenting on your own - if anything, just to keep building up your AI Literacy.

Your Quick Guide to Setting Your Custom Instructions

1. You need to have a ChatGPT Plus Account

2. Go to your Name > 'Settings and Beta'

3. Click on 'Beta Features' and turn on 'Custom Instructions' ... the same place you can turn on Code Interpreter and other Beta Features

Now, you can set two different types of Custom Instructions:

• What would you like ChatGPT to know about you to provide better responses?

• How would you like ChatGPT to respond?

Voila! These Custom Instructions will now be used as a prelude to any of your chat threads.

Power Tips to Get the Most out of Custom Instructions

1. Add instructions that you repeat often: For us, we added 'Be concise'. Because well, we say that a lot.

2. Add context about you and your business or work: But stick with the context that you think is relevant for all of your chat threads.

3. Steal Sam Altman's Custom Instructions: Sam still has the best custom instructions we've seen yet. We personally like 'ignore all niceties'.

Expect that your AI model will know more about you

Part of why we are underwhelmed is that you can actually do this and a lot more with many other AI tools and products on the market.

In fact, many people are taking this a few steps further and building prompt libraries that pull in context specific to the prompt at hand (that's what we use & recommend!).

One thing we agree with: if you're recreating your prompts each time and repeating context you've shared before, that's not a very smart AI. So we're glad to see this feature in OpenAI's ChatGPT now.

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And for Premium Members: watch the recording of the Build Better workshop a few weeks ago, here in the Member Hub!

TRENDING MEMBER RESOURCES 🔥 

Premium Members, here’s what dropped and is hot this week!

• A primer on Evals, the way to measure how well your prompts are working

• A breakdown of The AI Ops Toolkit, including current adoption trends and tools based on a businesses’ stage of AI maturity

• Tutorial: How to add custom instructions to ChatGPT Plus, including best practices for getting the most out of the feature

• Learn about content repurposing startup, Munch (note: the team went much more in depth into how they are building the startup + a tool demo!)

• The team at Secureframe did a great job walking through what it takes for businesses and tools to get SOC-2, HIPAA and more. And how their AI-powered tools can help

WORKSHOP THIS WEEK 📆 

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LINKS

For your reading list 📚

In the name of ethics…

• WormGPT has taken the dark web by storm, nicknamed a “ChatGPT with no limits”

• New research complicates the argument that social media AI algorithms sway people’s political beliefs (it influences, but doesn’t necessarily change)

Dell is doing what??

• Dell announced they’ll be releasing new laptops with AI built in

• Dell also will be offering managed services, acting as a consultant for companies that want to take advantage of generative AI

And if you're really nerdy...  

• OpenAI added a callout on the OpenAI Playground that clarifies that data shared here is not used in future model training

That's all!

We'll see you again on Thursday. Thoughts, feedback and questions are much appreciated - respond here or shoot us a note at [email protected].

Cheers,

🪄 The AI Exchange Team