How to customize ChatGPT to choose its default personality, what it knows about you and even what it calls you
Let’s tell you how to customize ChatGPT to adapt it to the way you want to use this artificial intelligence. You will be able to customize the way he responds, or even the way he communicates with you. All with things that you can customize within the settings. We are going to explain to you all the things you can customize about the behavior and memory of ChatGPT. And remember that all of this is optional, because you actually have a button to activate or deactivate the option. Enable personalizationand by disabling it you can make nothing you change take effect. Customize how ChatGPT responds to you Within the ChatGPT settings you have a section called Personalize. In it, you will be able to detail many aspects of your user experience with ChatGPT, so that everything is more personalized. One of the most important things is to configure how you want their responses to be. ChatGPT Personality The first thing you can do is adjust AI personalityso that you can choose the way in which the answers that the AI gives you are written. By default, their personality is happy and adaptable, but you will be able to choose up to four different ones. They are the following: Cynical: ChatGPT responses are made with a critical and sarcastic tone. Robot: ChatGPT responses are made in an effective and direct tone. Attentive: ChatGPT responses are made with a thoughtful and understanding tone. Geek: ChatGPT responses are made with an exploratory and enthusiastic tone. Custom instructions If none of these personalities convince you, you will also be able to customize it manually giving you instructions on what your tone should be. This way, you can make ChatGPT become a much more personal assistant adapted to what you expect from its responses. For that, you have to go to the section Custom instructions. Below, you’ll have a writing field, where you can hand-write the type of tone you want the AI to use. Below you will also have several examples, and you can simply click on it. Configure what ChatGPT knows about you Below the personality-related options, you have several options to define your data personal. For example, in Your Nickname You can choose a name or nickname so that ChatGPT always refers to you when answering your questions. After the nickname, you also have a section to specify Your profession. Thus, the answers he gives you can be adapted when appropriate using terms that you may know a little more about. It will also be able to guide you with answers and solutions to your work, and even ask you explicitly without having to specify what you work or study. Lastly, you also have a section More about you with which you can give more information about your interestsyour values or your way of thinking. This way, you can make sure that your answers can address or give you examples of things that interest you, or simply leave out some things that might offend your values. Here, you are free to explain everything you want about yourself, you can explore and add things to adapt ChatGPT as much as possible taking into account the things you want it to take into account about you and your context. Manage what ChatGPT remembers and then you have the memory section. When you talk to ChatGPT, at any time you can say something the AI thinks is important about you. It can be anything from a plant that you have because you have asked him about it to your personal tastes, and he will remember this to use when he thinks it is necessary. For example, your plant can appear in the background when you ask it to create images. If you click on the option Manage memoriesyou will see a list of all the things that ChatGPT has been saving about you on its own. Here, delete all memories or others individually, and it even has a search engine for cases where there are many about you. But if you don’t like this, you can disable memory usage. Disabling the option Reference saved memoriesChatGPT will no longer store them and refer to them when responding to you. And then, you also have one last option to Reference chat historywhich you can activate or deactivate. This will allow ChatGPT to take into account other conversations to mention things you have talked about in them, without having to save them in memories. With all these things, you should know that you can change everything according to your needs. You can activate or deactivate options depending on what you need, or directly deactivate all these customizations in case you don’t need anything. In Xataka Basics | The best prompts to save hours of work and do your tasks with ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot or other artificial intelligence