ChatGPT update lets users customize a warmer and more ent...

What’s Happening

Listen up: OpenAI shipped a series of new updates to ChatGPT, including new personality settings.

Home Tech ChatGPT update lets users customize a warmer and more enthusiastic bot You can ask the bot to use fewer emojis, too. By Chase DiBenedetto Chase DiBenedetto Social Good Reporter Chase joined Mashable’s Social Good team in 2020, covering online stories about digital activism, climate justice, accessibility, and media representation. (wild, right?)

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The Details

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ChatGPT can act even friendlier now, with new personality customization options that let users choose just how warm and enthusiastic the bot is in conversation. SEE ALSO: ChatGPT is changing the abortion landscape OpenAI just dropped the new personality settings in a Friday post on X.

Why This Matters

The update rolled out ASAP to ChatGPT users alongside a long-awaited pinned chats feature, new ways to generate or edit emails, and updates to ChatGPT browser Atlas . The new tools add more fine tuning of ChatGPT’s personality using levels of warmth and enthusiasm (labelled as “more,” “less,” or “default”). Users can also adjust the way the bot organizes its responses, such as how frequently it generates lists, as well as the amount of emojis it employs, plus to its base style and tone.

This could have major implications for how we use technology going forward.

Key Takeaways

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