Cool for a weekend project, but honestly ChatGPT is still kinda shit at dialogues. I wonder if that's the issue with technology or OpenAI's fine-tuning (and suspect the latter), but it cannot talk like normal people do: shut up if it has nothing to add of value, ask reasonable follow-up questions if user doesn't understand something or there's ambiguity in the question. Also, on topic of follow-up questions: I don't remember which update introduced that attempt to increase engagement by finishing every post with stupid irrelevant follow-up question, but it's really annoying. It also works on me, despite hating ChatGPT it's kinda an instinct to treat humanly something that speaks vaguely like a human.
I added this to personal instructions to make it less annoying:
• No compliments, flattery, or emotional rapport.
• Focus on clear reasoning and evidence.
• Be critical of users assumptions when needed.
• Ask follow-up questions only when essential for accuracy.
However, I'm kinda concerned with crippling it by adding custom prompts. It's kinda hard to know how to use AI efficiently. But the glazing and random follow-up questions feel more like a result of some A/B testing UX-research rather than improving the results of the model.
I often ask copilot about phrases I hear that I don't know or understand, like "what is a key party" - where I just want it to define it, and it will output three paragraphs that end with some suggestion that I am interested in it.
It is something that local models I have tried do not do, unless you are being conversational with it. I imagine openai gets a bit more pennies if they add the open ended questions to the end of every reply, and that's why it's done. I get annoyed if people patronize me, so too I get annoyed at a computer.
