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by mFixman 142 days ago
I've been impressed by how good ChatGPT is at getting the right context old conversations.

When I ask simple programming questions in a new conversation it can generally figure out which project I'm going to apply it to, and write examples catered to those projects. I feel that it also makes the responses a bit more warm and personal.
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nfg 142 days ago
Agreed that it can work well, but it can also irritating - I find myself using private conversations to attempt to isolate them, a straightforward per-chat toggle for memory use would be nice.
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robwwilliams 141 days ago
Love this idea. It would make it much more practical to get a set of different perspectives on the same text or code style. Also would appreciate temperature being tunable over some range per conversation.
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jstanley 142 days ago
ChatGPT having memory of previous conversations is very confusing.

Occasionally it will pop up saying "memory updated!" when you tell it some sort of fact. But hardly ever. And you can go through the memories and delete them if you want.

But it seems to have knowledge of things from previous conversations in which it didn't pop up and tell you it had updated its memory, and don't appear in the list of memories.

So... how is it remembering previous conversations? There is obviously a second type of memory that they keep kind of secret.

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mFixman 142 days ago
If you go to Settings -> Personalisation -> Memory, you have two separate toggles for "Reference saved memories" and "Reference chat history".

The first one refers to the "memory updated" pop-up and its bespoke list of memories; the second one likely refers to some RAG systems for ChatGPT to get relevant snippets of previous conversations.

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SoftTalker 142 days ago
ChatGPT is what work pays for so it's what I've used. I find it grossly verbose and obsequious, but you can find useful nuggets in the vomit it produces.
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josephg 142 days ago
Go into your user settings -> personalisation. They’ve recently added dropdowns to tune its responses. I’ve set mine to “candid, less warm” and it’s gotten a lot more to-the-point in its responses.
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ssl-3 142 days ago
ChatGPT can very much be that way.

It can also be terse and cold, while also somewhat-malleably insistent -- like an old toolkit in the shed.

It's all tunable.

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