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Stop being so damn helpful!

I love ChatGPT, as you might have noticed 🙂 So this person’s rant made me LOL.

“I finally got ChatGPT to stop asking ‘Want me to…’ at the end of every response – here’s how to do it

“For me, the most annoying thing that ChatGPT does is ending its responses with a query. It usually starts with “Want me to…” followed by a helpful suggestion like “Want me to put all that information in a handy table?” or sometimes a statement like “Let me know if you want a version focused on themes like fate, violence, or morality”.

“I know ChatGPT is just trying to be helpful, but it’s like dealing with an over-eager intern who keeps pestering you all the time. I don’t want a protracted conversation; I just want to get on with the next thing.

“I could, as many have pointed out, just ignore it. After all, ChatGPT is a machine, not a person, so you can’t be rude to it. But as somebody who can’t stand the mental load of not immediately replying to a text message and hates it when other people take hours or days – days! – to reply, I feel like I’m constantly leaving somebody ‘on read’ when I want to walk away from a ChatGPT conversation. It vexes me terribly.

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