Comment by waynerisner
2 days ago
For tone, I prefer efficient — higher signal-to-noise.
In custom instructions I’ll sometimes write something like “tell it like it is.” Interestingly, some models then start with “okay, I’ll tell you like it is…” which makes me wonder whether that’s psychological framing, operational behavior, or both.
Curious why you asked — have you found customization meaningfully changes performance?
Got it.
Since I primarily used ChatGPT, I picked up a bunch of prompts from people sharing it in order to optimize for better results. I don't know if this is relevant anymore as I think they've fixed quite a bit and now you can customize tone and warmth directly.
My prompts were more on avoiding filler, be more direct etc, no emojis etc.