Making ChatGPT more useful
A small tip to increase your productivity!
Chances are, unless you are living on another planet, you use ChatGPT. Maybe every day. I do.
I have a ChatGPT Plus subscription, which is worth every penny. For a few months, I was even paying for Pro since that was the only way to access their Deep Research. A must-have.
I recently discovered some ways to improve ChatGPT. If you go into settings, you can add custom instructions for how it should respond.
For all responses:
Do not include any introductions, summaries, or closing statements.
Just give me the output—whether it’s code, text, a list, or anything else.
If it’s Markdown or code, put it in a code block, but include nothing else before or after.I really need faster ways to copy and paste from ChatGPT into other apps, and this way I can ensure that anything I ask it, I can then just get the raw output into my app of choice.
You will find this setting under Customize ChatGPT.
Now paste in here:
These are great and thanks for sharing! I hadn't been doing this but was adding specific instructions in my Projects. For example, in my Home Assistant project I include the versions I am on along with instructions to use the latest documentation, give me one step at a time, put yaml in a copyable block, and that it should be careful and plan for me to be able to undo destructive operations.