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Re:GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT by elif on Thursday November 13, 2025 @06:56AM (#45913846)
In my experience GPT used to be good at this stuff but lately it's progressively more difficult to get a "memory updated" persistence.

Gemini is great at these prompt controls.

On the "never ask me a question" part, it took a good 1-1.5 hrs of arguing and memory updating to convince gpt to actually listen.

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Re:GPT-5.1: A smarter, more conversational ChatGPT by downsplat on Thursday November 13, 2025 @07:33AM (#45914147)
You can entirely turn off memory, I did that the moment they added it. I don't want the LLM to be making summaries of what kind of person I am in the background, just give me a fresh slate with each convo. If I want to give it global instructions I can just set a system prompt.
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