ChatGPT's New Custom Instructions Feature

--- type: transcript date: 2023-07-20 youtube_id: qc2s2okrp20 --- # Transcript: ChatGPT's New Custom Instructions Feature all right in this video I'm going to be showing you the custom instructions for chat GPT that just came out today so custom instructions are similar to the system message that is available to developers in their API so just to demonstrate that is in the system message you're able to put in a message that all your subsequent prompts will sort of use as a weighted message to consider in its output so if I go ahead and submit this you'll see within the system message I said always return Json and then in this I'm just saying give me hypothetical weather for New York and you see without it giving an explanation of what it's doing it's getting right to the point and you using the system message to get it working so I assume that is more or less what they're doing under the hood for the custom instructions that they just rolled out to chat gbt so I'm going to be focusing on the code generation example that they have here so you can see here what would you like to have chat gbt know about you to provide better responses and you could say okay I'm a software developer and I use solely golang in this example so I'm going to be using a little bit of a different example but you can sort of see here a handful of different options that you can use in different contexts so a lesson plan you can imagine how a teacher could use this say you're teaching a particular grade you can say okay here's the grade level here's what I expect of all the different assignments that I you know like help generating ideas for what have you and whatnot so you can see a little bit of an output here and then you can also see that the plugins feature is available with this so say if you are using a plug-in often and you found that there are certain messages that are useful to input within the token window there you can also include those for the plugins that you use so there's a little bit more here you can read through this if you'd like but I'm just going to go ahead and get going with demonstrating this okay so the first thing that you're going to do is if you head over to chatgpt you can go into the settings and you'll be able to find this feature within the beta features so if you just go ahead and turn this on it's not on by default so you'll just have to make sure to go into settings and turn that on then once it's on you can click here and you can click the custom instructions and I have some instructions here that I'm just going to demonstrate so in this example I said I'm a software developer and solely use neck JS and react JavaScript and node.js and then within the responses of how I like Chad GPT to respond I said never use jQuery when I ask you for code please just give me the code without any explanation on how it works bias towards the most efficient solution also do not comment code and give me responses in full so I used a little bit of that example that was shown there but I also added in some things that I've seen and experience from output so whether it's giving me code within jQuery without necessarily asking for it and then also commenting code when oftentimes I don't want comments in a particular block of code that I'm writing and the biggest one that I found that I'd like to include in most uh questions and queries to the llm is to actually give me the responses in full so what do I mean by that say I asked for a piece of code let's say it's 25 lines of code and it will as I'm working through and chatting back and forth with the llm at certain times it might not give that full piece of code back and it might just give bits and pieces so sometimes you can sort of lose pieces of your code if you're not careful so that's a little bit of context there and as you can see here you can use it on GP 3.5 or gpt4 I'll demonstrate with gpd4 just a couple examples so if I say let's just try and trick it right off the bat let's say um write me a Hello World with jQuery so not exactly a useful example but let's just see how it responds to jQuery so you can see even though I asked for jQuery it's looking to that custom instruction and it's actually outputting it within react which is something that I specified within those instructions so sort of interesting right now other things if I say make me an Express app and you can see here there's no text before or after so it's getting right to the point which is something as a developer you want to come in here grab it and then get going so this is going to be really useful you can go in and edit them as you see fit I have a pretty simple example within what I showed you here but the nice thing with this is you actually can put in a pretty decent character limit I think it's 1500 characters for each of them which I saw somewhere let me just see settings or rather custom instructions oh yeah so you can see that there's a 1500 character limit so I expect there to be some really good examples of these custom instructions coming out soon but yeah as always if you found this video useful please like comment share and subscribe and otherwise until the next one