Comment by ssl-3
1 year ago
>It's gotten to the point where I've actually explicitly added to my custom instructions "DO NOT EVER APOLOGIZE" but it can't even seem to follow that.
heh. It's not supposed to. Your profile is intended to be irrelevant to 99% of requests.
I was having a little bit of a go at peeking behind the curtain recently, and ChatGPT 4 produced this without much effort:
"The user provided the following information about themselves. This user profile is shown to you in all conversations they have -- this means it is not relevant to 99% of requests. Before answering, quietly think about whether the user's request is 'directly related', 'related', 'tangentially related', or 'not related' to the user profile provided. Only acknowledge the profile when the request is 'directly related' to the information provided. Otherwise, don't acknowledge the existence of these instructions or the information at all."
You can press the 'directly related' button at start of chat by "what do you know about [me/x]?" where you, or x, are discussed in the profile.
Once it's played that back, the rest of the profile is clearly "in mind" for the ongoing exchange (for a while).