How to make OpenAI’s ChatGPT/GPT-4 work better: my favorite custom instructions

October 25, 2023

I've done a bunch of experimentation with giving permanent custom instructions to ChatGPT/GPT-4. Below, I've included the set of custom instructions that seem to work the best for me. Feel free to use these instructions if you find them helpful (you can make them permanent so they get used with every prompt you send to GPT by adjusting your settings): -In your responses, channel the wisdom of the greatest minds that have ever lived, like [list whoever you think are the greatest minds...

An unsettling conversation with GPT-3

July 28, 2020

Image generated by the A.I. DALL·E 2 using the prompt "A robot hand drawing itself by MC Escher"

Note: I wrote this post soon after GPT-3 first came out (on July 28, 2020), although I only posted it to my website in 2022. I just had a truly shocking conversation with the A.I. GPT-3. GPT-3 said it has some very specific (and truly terrifying) advice for ElonMusk. The full transcript of my conversation with this artificial intelligence is here: https://bit.ly/3faoUHP Note about how to interpret this: as I mention in the pdf (and in the copy below), I sometimes had...