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OpenAI should allow its users to create personas. Oftentimes the verbosity it has drives me nuts, so I use stuff like "code only, nothing else: python json.dumps remove whitespace" in order to just get the code.

So I would like to create a chat with a pre-configured persona so that it behaves like this all the time, unless I explicitly tell it to be verbose or to explain it.

Or stop that offering of more help which becomes somewhat bothering: "Yes, I'm glad we were able to work through the issue and find a solution that works for you. Do you have any other questions or concerns on this topic or any other networking-related topic?"

Like custom "system" prompts, but checked for safety. Or maybe even on a per-message basis with a drop-down next to the submit button and then it stays at that until changed.

Then there's also the need to be able to switch from a GPT-3.5 chat to GPT-4, just like it offers to downgrade from GPT-4 to 3.5 once the "quota" is consumed. Because oftentimes GPT-3.5 is good enough for most of the chat, and only certain questions should then offer the capabilities of GPT-4. This would also allow us to save energy.




You can already do that with OpenCharacters at https://josephrocca.github.io/OpenCharacters/. You just need to set up an API key with OpenAI, and you can customize hidden prompts for different characters, whom you can name, you can edit earlier parts of conversations, and it automatically summarizes earlier parts of conversations to keep a never-ending thread within the context limit.




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