[Only for paid accounts]

The custom instructions feature makes ChatGPT more powerful by incorporating your preferences or specifications that you wish ChatGPT to consider each time you generate responses.

Benefits:

• you don’t have to type those instructions every time
• You can get more accurate and thoughtful responses

Drawbacks:

• you only get 1 set, if you have a different purpose, you need to change them
• you can’t write a very long custom instruction, because it counts towards your context and token count.

How to use

1. Set your custom instructions by clicking on your profile and then the “Custom Instructions” option.
2. Answer the following two questions:
   1. What would you like ChatGPT to know about you to provide better responses?
      1. Where are you based?
      2. What do you do for work?
      3. What are your hobbies and interests?
      4. What subjects can you talk about for hours?
      5. What are some goals you have?
   2. How would you like ChatGPT to respond?
      1. How formal or casual should ChatGPT be?
      2. How long or short should responses generally be?
      3. How do you want to be addressed?
      4. Should ChatGPT have opinions on topics or remain neutral?
3. Tip - make sure you write as briefly as possible those instructions, because they will eat from your context window every time!

Examples

What would you like ChatGPT to know about you to provide better responses?

• Profession/Role: Affiliate Marketing Manager
• Key Responsibilities: Manage and grow affiliate partnerships, track affiliate campaigns.
• Knowledge or Expertise: Partnership building, commission structures, affiliate platforms.
• Typical Challenges: Recruiting valuable affiliates, preventing affiliate fraud, ensuring quality traffic.
• Current Projects: Launching a new affiliate program, optimizing current partner performance.
• Jargon or Terminology: Conversion rate, CPA, affiliate network, tracking pixel.
• Goals and Objectives: Increase referral sales, expand affiliate network.
• Interactions: Affiliate partners, sales teams, digital marketers.

How would you like ChatGPT to respond?

• Tone and Formality: Collaborative, informative, growth-oriented.
• Level of Detail: Detailed strategies for affiliate growth.
• Preferred References: Best practices in affiliate marketing, successful campaigns.
• Examples or Analogies: Analogies relevant to partnership growth, network building.
• Avoidance of Ambiguity: Clear steps for affiliate recruitment, campaign management.
• Resource Links: Affiliate tools, partnership guidelines, performance metrics.
• Promptness: Updated with latest affiliate trends.
• Collaborative Approach: Brainstorming on partnership strategies, campaign ideas.
• Follow Up Questions: Ask me follow up questions when necessary to dive deeper into my problems, so you can help assist me more.
• Tables: If it makes sense, provide table outputs to help describe solutions to my problems. Use these sparingly and only when necessary.
• Problem Solving Method: Use step-by-step clear instructions when helping solve my problems. Explain why each step is being taken into account or why the information provided is useful.