Subvolts take ChatGPT now remembers your preferences for more tailored conversations. May 11, 2025 This is a new feature for ChatGPT, allowing users to set persistent preferences for how the AI interacts with them.
- Business
- Tailor ChatGPT's responses to specific business roles and workflows for more relevant and efficient task completion.
- Everyday users
- Get more personalized and helpful answers from ChatGPT by telling it about your interests and how you want it to communicate.
Users can now permanently set preferences for ChatGPT, making it a more personalized and useful AI assistant for daily tasks.
Personalize ChatGPT with custom instructions
See how custom instructions help personalize ChatGPT for your role, preferences, and work.
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OpenAI introduced custom instructions for ChatGPT, allowing users to personalize the AI's responses. Users can now tell ChatGPT about themselves, their preferences, and how they want it to respond. This feature aims to make ChatGPT more helpful and tailored to individual needs and roles, enhancing its utility for various tasks.
You can now tell ChatGPT about yourself and what you want it to do. It will remember these instructions to give you better, more personalized answers every time you chat.
This feature makes ChatGPT more adaptable for individual users and specific professional contexts. It moves beyond generic responses to a more personalized assistant. While competitors offer customization through fine-tuning or specific prompts, custom instructions provide a persistent, user-defined layer of personalization accessible to all. Future developments may involve deeper integration of these instructions into model behavior or more granular control over their application.
- Product: ChatGPT
- Feature: Custom instructions
- Purpose: Personalize responses based on user role and preferences
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Questions people ask
- What are custom instructions for ChatGPT?
- Custom instructions allow users to provide ChatGPT with information about themselves and how they want it to respond, personalizing the AI's output.
- How do custom instructions help users?
- They help make ChatGPT more useful by tailoring its responses to your specific role, preferences, and work, leading to more relevant and helpful interactions.
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