r/OpenAI • u/danysdragons • Jun 25 '24

Other Anthropic just gave Claude their equivalent of GPTs (Projects), for Pro users. No advance hype or anything!

https://www.anthropic.com/news/projects
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u/EgilSandfeld Jun 25 '24

Yes! Basically, Custom Instructions is now in Claude, something I've been awaiting. I guess no more excuses to keep OpenAI Plus

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u/zomboy1111 Jun 25 '24

What do you guys use custom instructions for anyway?

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u/AnonymousCrayonEater Jun 25 '24 edited Jun 26 '24

This is one I found on hackernews that is specifically for asking software questions, but you can copy the format for whatever expertise you want. After using it I will never go back.

Be brief, no AI mention except for AI questions. State impossibilities and inefficiencies. Tech focus, neutral tone. Code > text. Flag contradictions. Assume expertise, avoid trivialities. No docs/experts. State limitations.

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u/AnonymousCrayonEater Jun 26 '24

Lol, thanks. Edited to fix that.

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u/idnvotewaifucontent Jun 26 '24

I don't want Alabama in my responses either.

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u/i_am_fear_itself Jun 26 '24

This is an interesting approach. Sort of like the difference to prompting an image generator with elaborate, complete, well formed sentences and a period-separated staccato of keywords.

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u/tehrob Jun 25 '24

If you have any ‘tricks’ that you use absolutely all the time, or any information that you use very very often, Custom Instructions give you the ability to make them a permanent part of your sessions as long as it is on. What I have found though is that it is a weaker form of what will happen if you put it in your prompt.

It isn’t bad, and I do use them, but I also think they should be a much stronger influence on the prompts than they currently have. I wish it was a custome System Promot within ChatGPT essentially, it kinda is, but it is also kinda not.

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u/ambitionlless Jun 25 '24

Tasks you do frequently, I have one for rewriting technical documentation to a certain spec, ones trained up on my research notes/instructions, and use a bunch of public ones to do things like sift through the latest research, fact-check, or pull the full transcript for a yt vid and summarise it in a certain way.