Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by wnmurphy 159 days ago
Tangential, but you used to be able to use custom instructions for ChatGPT to respond only in zalgotext and it would have insane results in voice mode. Each voice was a different kind of insane. I was able to get some voices to curse or spit out Mint Mobile commercials.

Then they changed the architecture so voice mode bypasses custom instructions entirely, which was really unfortunate. I had to unsubscribe, because walking and talking was the killer feature and now it's like you're speaking to a Gen Z influencer or something.

3 comments

If you're a coder then it sounds like you could use the API to get around that and once again utilize your custom prompt with their tech.
I do it sometimes (even just through the openai playground on platform.openai.com) because the experience is incredible, but it's expensive. One hour of chatting costs around 20-30$.
I think the subscriptions tend to be a significant discount over paying for tokens yourself
Did you record this? Sounds deranged enough to be amusing.
...voice mode bypasses custom instructions? But why? Without a custom prompt it's both unreliable and obnoxious.