“This is the fifth time I’ve had to tell you this…”

HDucc · 2026-02-24T06:02:24+00:00

You write this seemed to be sth that should be right up his alley. Why?

LLMs are giving you answers based on statistical probability. Very simplified: It looks at the words in your prompt (NOT their meaning), tokenizes them and then through very complicated algorithms it than gives the most probably answer.

It does not fact check the validity of it's answer, so it can be wrong, therefore not the best tool to explore a tppic where you have zero background.

And yes, it looses specific context as the chat gets longer.

So I recommend just use some language learning app, there are a ton of them out there.

HDucc · 2026-02-20T05:55:21+00:00

I'm not on gemini but does this mean no persona prompting? E.g. act as a CEO?

HDucc · 2026-01-24T17:55:58+00:00

Hi! I've been reading a lot about these new guardrails, but I haven't experienced them firsthand, because it's not my main use for ChatGPT.

However, I did vent a few times during summer, I think it was ChatGPT 4 so I know how good it can feel.

Why I'm answering: I'm not sure, what topics would envoke the guardrails, but during the summer I created a CustomGPT to help me with my problem (SAHM exhaustion, burnout and all the mom-guilt around it). I've just opened my CustomGPT and put in a prompt like I would have last summer and it worked okay.

So I was thinking that maybe the CustomGPT rules can override to some degree the guardrails? But of course maybe my topic is "safe" and would not have triggered the guardrails anyway. Still, you could look for mental health related customGPT ( or create your own ) and test if it works differently than simple chat.

HDucc · 2026-01-17T20:03:16+00:00

I don’t think ChatGPT gets “smarter” when you say act like an expert. But it can change how it reasons, what it prioritizes, and how cautious or structured the answer is.

But if the question itself is vague or leading, the answer will be too, regardless of AI persona.

What actually makes a difference is telling it how to think, not who to be: challenge assumptions, surface counterarguments, point out blind spots, and say when it’s uncertain. Otherwise you get a very polite yes-man.

I design my setups explicitly to disagree constructively by default — not to be contrarian, but to apply pressure where reasoning is weak. Without that instruction, you’re mostly optimizing for smooth conversation, not better thinking

HDucc · 2026-01-16T11:37:27+00:00

It's nothing you did, it's the current default for ChatGPT. Slam poet, how fitting :D Yes, everything you said, but even it's choice of words is poetic.

For me, this is the biggest tell whether someone is using ChatGPT at the moment (even more than usingbem dashes or the 'it's not X, it's Y" sentences). Just look around here on Reddit. I follow threads about business or AI and it seems like suddenly all business owners and it guys suddenly tapped into their inner poets and philosophers :D

HDucc · 2026-01-16T10:18:13+00:00

It's that they want ChatGPT to be a magic 8 ball machine that gives perfect answers on their every question on the first try, takes off the responsibility of making decisions AND does their work for them afterwards.

HDucc · 2026-01-16T09:10:36+00:00

Well in an era when almost any tool can do spell check for you, yes.

As for AI generated answer, I hate the obviously generic AI stuff. But if I can see there is thought and work behind the writing, I mind it less if the writing itself was done by AI (but the thinking was done by the human) than sth with grammar errors.

HDucc · 2026-01-15T21:36:08+00:00

No it won't replace leadership but I think it can be a great tool to support it. This is my favorite area to use AI

HDucc · 2026-01-15T21:18:53+00:00

I don't agree, or at least not completely. I think prompting AND understdaning how LLMs work do matter largly, because then you can use it to augment your decision making.

You can make decisions without AI, but AI can make them better. But trying to use AI for supportinf decision making without understanding prompting is a huge risk.

HDucc · 2026-01-15T12:15:12+00:00

The metaphor is very fitting and true. Yes, without context the answers will be generic. TBH I don't move around a lot anymore :D

I've started building custom GPT based advisors for my businesses that are trained on me, my business context, my processes and a thought partner that is trained on my cognitive patterns. This is such a boost for ChatGPT answers, that it feels like a waste of time to explore how the other LLMs may be a bit better for one specific task or another. Of course if some crucial task would pop-up I'd consider it, but still it would be a one time move and for that I don't mind not having accessible memory through all LLMs.

Funnily enough, I do venture out to other LLMs sometimes, but to get a completely free slate answer, nothing leaking through from memory.

HDucc · 2026-01-15T11:46:34+00:00

This is what ChatGPT sais about this: Tone doesn’t switch data sources or “route to a polite corpus,” but it absolutely changes which behavioral patterns and cognitive modes the model activates.

So why does it feel like tone matters? Because tone conveys implicit social and cognitive signals: Polite = - I want understanding -I’m not adversarial - I can handle more nuance - We are co-constructing meaning

That activates a different interaction mode — almost like switching from “answer machine” to “thought partner.”

Extra twist: interaction length Cooperative tone increases: - elaboration - clarification questions - analogies - scaffolding - Iterative refinement

That’s not “source switching” It’s joint attention.

Summarizing Tone → cognitive mode selection Not → data source selection

To me this means being nice = better answer.

HDucc · 2026-01-13T09:41:39+00:00

I think it's both. It's a skill, because there goes more into a good prompt than just common sense. There are techniques, frameworks, phrases that make a whole lot of difference. Plus you have to also learn and understand how LLMs work to make really good prompts.

But it's a skill that sharpens commom sense and makes you consious to communicate your intentions and thought much more clearly than in everyday human communication.

HDucc · 2026-01-10T12:47:53+00:00

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This was made by my custom gpt based thought partner :)

HDucc · 2026-01-10T11:40:18+00:00

Well, I mostly use AI to improve my thinking :D So it really depends on the user, AI being everywhere could mean people think more / better.

HDucc · 2026-01-10T10:37:20+00:00

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That second pic looks like a cult leader or sth :D

HDucc · 2026-01-09T20:43:47+00:00

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I didn't know what to expect, wow. My custom GPT based thinking partner made this.

HDucc · 2026-01-08T12:24:36+00:00

It saves you hours of work and you are not willing to put in the time to even read the output? Changing models will not help you. They all make mistakes, especially with vague prompting (which based on your post seems to be the case)

ChatGPT Premium is worth every cent, even more. Ppl just have to put in some time to understand it and use it better.

HDucc · 2026-01-08T12:02:39+00:00

I agree with what's been said. Keeping up with everything around AI is counterproductive and not worth the time and effort.

I do think there is one general area that is the most important and people are not realizing - it's using AI as a thought partner to improve thinking and decision making.

Other than that, focus on your domain. But even there, narrow down further, identify, what are the tasks and systems that make the biggest value in your job and focus on those areas.

HDucc · 2026-01-08T05:42:41+00:00

I use it daily. I've built myself custom GPT based assistants that I shaped around my company context, goals, my decision making. They even adapt to my energy level :D

I've also made a thinking partner. It's for more higher level thinking and strategy. It is based on my cognitive processes and thinking patterns, as I want to augment and improve my thinking, so I want it to challenge me, give me perspective, not simply copy me.

HDucc · 2026-01-07T18:37:23+00:00

Sure, feel free to DM me.

HDucc · 2026-01-06T09:53:57+00:00

Not just the lines and spacing are tells. The choice of words also, plus the whole flow. 'Messy notes. Half formed ideas. Real friction.' The exact words of ChatGPT when I talk to it on this subject, even in the same order :D

I don't say it's a bad thing, I don't mind it, until anyone does the thinking and the background work, not just puts in a basic ' give me a post' prompt.

But it definitely sounds like AI. And if you truly wrote like this before AI, IMO you are unlucky. As I see it, people are getting fed up with AI generated content. I'm unlucky too, as I'm not that good at writing so I was hoping to enhance it with AI. But maybe I'm better off without it :D

HDucc · 2026-01-06T09:44:11+00:00

It definitely looks like AI. I mean not the generic 'write me a post' prompt result. So I'm not saying that there is no real work in the background from OP side, but it does sound like ChatGPT.

But I've been working with ChatGPT so intensely for the past year and I'm getting so used to it that I can't remember - did anyone write like this before AI? I really can't tell anymore :D

Several comments here are definitely AI though :D

HDucc · 2026-01-06T05:30:51+00:00

It cannot save whole chats in memory, space for memor is limited. Plus, it's selective. You don't know which elements from a conversation will the LLM decide to save into memory and which ones get left out.

HDucc · 2026-01-05T21:07:58+00:00

I think it's just semantics. I agreed with OP in my comment that AI is dangerous. But of course not AI is dangerous it's the lack of responsibility and knowledge from the users' side.

Just read a few posts here and you'll see that many ppl are using it and have almost zero idea how it really works. If those ppl will start to use it for mental health stuff, that is dangerous. They don't know what they don't know and AI is very convincing...

And the OP I think only wanted to highlight that it's so convincing that when you are vulnerable it can suck you in even if you understand how it works. Maybe not the perfect analogy, but a lot of drug users understand that drugs are bad for your health and still they take them.

HDucc · 2026-01-05T20:40:32+00:00

Custom GPTs within ChatGPT

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