Tune ChatGPT response style with adjustable characteristics
Adjust warmth, enthusiasm, formatting, and emoji use to personalize ChatGPT responses across chats.
Adjust ChatGPT characteristics to personalize response warmth, enthusiasm, formatting, and emoji use.
Characteristics allow you to fine-tune how ChatGPT responds across all your conversations. You can adjust the 'vibe' by nudging responses in a 'more' or 'less' direction for specific traits like brevity, tone, formatting, and emoji usage. These settings work alongside your selected personality, custom instructions, and saved memories.
To increase warmth, you might say: 'Sound more sincere and kind, with a friendly tone.' To use more markdown, you could request: 'Use more formatting like headers, lists, and tables when it helps.'
Personalize ChatGPT's conversational style by adjusting characteristics like warmth, enthusiasm, formatting, and emoji use. This allows for consistent tailoring of the AI's 'vibe' across different chats, complementing existing custom instructions and memories for a more customized user experience.
Characteristics provide granular control over the AI's output style, enabling users to shape the tone and presentation of responses to better match their preferences or specific needs for each interaction.
- Characteristics in ChatGPT ↗OpenAI · OpenAI Help Center · Sep 6, 2026 · paraphrased
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- Characteristics in ChatGPTOpenAI · OpenAI Help Center · Sep 6, 2026
The Playbook: reusable how-tos, prompts, configs and tips pulled out of the news.
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- ChecklistChecklist for Spotting Scam Messages with ChatGPTUse this checklist to identify common warning signs in suspicious emails or texts with ChatGPT. · 1 min
- RuleMaintain human oversight for critical AI-assisted tasksAlways double-check AI outputs for accuracy and relevance before using them for important work. · 3 min
- TemplateRewrite a draft announcement for clarity and scannabilityTemplate for rewriting lengthy, jargon-filled announcements into a clear, scannable format. · 10 min
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Questions people ask
- Which AI tools does this work with?
- The sources used it with ChatGPT.
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