[darau1]

I think ChatGPT might sometimes just spit the prompt back out; earlier I asked it to write me a resignation letter. I then asked it to add a piece saying that I "looked forward to working together in the future in whatever capacity that might be" -- it proceeded to add a sentence to the final paragraph that read "I look forward to working together in the future in whatever capacity that might be".

The letter itself was fine, I just thought it odd that it added my sentence verbatim.

[swyx]

Have you tried some variant of "Do not include literal content from the original prompt" as notion ai does?

gpt3 also has frequency/presence penalty params you can tweak to avoid repetition

[darau1]

I did not try that, but it's good to know it has those parameters built-in.