Chatgpt offers many ways to customize and personalize your conversation. You can share details about your life, including your name, your profession, or other tidbits. You are able to explain what symptoms it should have, such as patience, sympathy, or understanding. You can add some facts about yourself and save it from the previous conversation to refer to memories.
It all seems helpful. But what does Chatgpt do with information about you? I shared some details about myself and my life to find out. What happened here
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First of all, I will cover the ways that I optimized and individual chat. You can do it Chatgate websiteIn Windows or Mac appOr in IOS Or Android Application. I found it easiest to do so on the website and Windows app.
Before we go ahead, be careful of which personal information about yourself chat or share with any AI. Openai has promised that details are not accessible to staff members or at least unknown. Nevertheless, you want to be cautious. To make the conversations more personal and interesting, just share enough about yourself. But do not reveal anything that you do not want to learn another person about yourself.
(Disclosure: ZDNET’s original company Ziff Davis filed a case of April 2025 against Openai, alleging that it violates Ziff Davis copyright training and operating its AI system.)
To start, click on your profile icon and choose settings. In the settings window, click on the settings for personalization and then select the custom instructions. “What should chat do?” Enter your first name or a surname, whichever likes. “What do you do?” Enter your profession. In my case, I told AI that I was an independent writer and journalist.
The next field asks you to choose what symptoms should be near the chat. It is worth installing because it will affect how AI behaves in interaction. Click on any symptoms below to add them, such as chat, funny, encouraging, or doubt. Click on the refresh button to display a new set of symptoms and click on what you want to include. In turn, Chatgpt will expand the words you choose in full sentences.
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“Should you know about something else chat?” Enter something else about yourself that you want to know. In my end, I wrote that I am married and my wife and I own a black cat named Mr. Gigals. I also said that I am a great fan of old films, Jazz, “Star Treck,” The Twilight Zone, “Doctor Hu,” and “Spider-Man”.
When made, for the new chat for the new chat, turn on the switch and then click on the saving.
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In the memory section, turn on the switch for “Reference Save Memories” and “Reference Chat History”. When referring to saved memories, Chatgpt will use the information provided by you in custom instructions. When referring to your chat history, AI will use the information you shared in previous conversations. If you want to chat that extra personal touch, you would like to try both options.
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Beyond the details you shared as memories, you can also leave tidbits about yourself in a regular chat. For example, you can ask the chip to write a poem about peanut butter and jelly in which you say that PB & J had your favorite sandwich as a child.
In my case, I told AI that my favorite sandwich is a doll with a doll of cream cheese on a toast popy seed bagel and my favorite drink is a chocolate egg cream. I then asked for the origin of both. Chatgpt answered my question and added two of my favorite behaviors to the memories saved about me.
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You can manage any memories directly that the chat has saved. For this, go back to the settings, select personalization, and click on the link to manage memories. Here, you can review your saved memories and now you can remove what you don’t want.
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When I customized and individual chats, I saw it for a spin to see how it reacts in our conversation.
In a conversation, I asked it to name some songs from my favorite singer, and AI gave me a list of tunes by Billy Holiday. Then it offered to compile a list of songs, eventually put it in a playlist with links so that I could hear them directly into Apple Music.
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In another conversation, I asked the chatgipt to name some places, where I can get my favorite drink in my favorite city. In response, it showed me a list of restaurants and shops in New York City, where I could order chocolate egg cream. This was followed by a map with the location of each place in the list.
Finally, here is where the chatgate became really clever. I asked it to define a tachin, a fictional particles that can move faster than the speed of light. AI defined the word and then showed examples of tachyone in my favorite TV shows in “Star Trek” and “Doctor Hu,”.
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It then offered to write a short science-Fi story that includes Tachines, Time Travel and Mr. Gigals, My Cat. The resulting story was fun and creative. From there, chatgate can turn it into a full short story, a comic script or an audio drama outline.
I did not ask AI to include Mr. Gigls in the conversation; It did it on its own. But it reflects the surprise that can pop up when you share enough about yourself with chat.
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