[SoftTalker]

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.

[josephg]

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.

[ssl-3]

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.