ChatGPT set agreeableness level

If you use ChatGPT, you’re likely familiar with how it tends to validate your thinking. The thinking can be bad. It might still get validated. This is such a persistent issue that South Park called it out this season. I’ve had to set custom prompts to get around this, and at times ask ChatGPT to be more aggressive/critical in responses to get useable insights.

This got me thinking… what if you could set agreeableness levels when using ChatGPT? One option is the set of cards like above, but I could also see a world where this is just a slider you have nested in settings. This is one of those ideas that started out as an unhinged though but might be a good idea.

The level of technical familiarity to use something like this likely prohibits a choice like this from living on the home page, but this as a setting would be helpful tool for power users.

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