[anal_reactor]

I have exactly the opposite experience. I was having exceptionally bad time, I tried talking to ChatGPT, and while the first impression was very good, I quickly realized it... lacks personality? I'm not sure how to phrase it, but the language it used made me feel like I was on a work meeting.

I think this might be boiling down to cultural differences though. I noticed that even though I work in an international company, people from similar cultures tend to cluster together. I guess ChatGPT was trained on texts from a culture that isn't mine, and now it fails to adapt.

[amenhotep]

I tend to keep different sessions open for different ongoing topics, and that's what I notice when I start a new one. It's very easy for it to fall into its default sterile, focus grouped, conversation-flowchart mode.

Longer conversations can draw it more "out of its shell", though. The more context it has, the better it can mirror you, and there's some sessions I have where it genuinely does feel like it's got a little bit of personality and rapport with me.

You really do have to keep in mind, though, that no matter what, in the end it's just going to agree with you :)