Creating a GPT vs. Just priming an individual session?

[qchsbandkids]

I’m just starting to learn how to create GPTs. As I’m starting out though, it’s talking about giving the GPT specific instructions to tell it out how operation.
What is the difference between doing that vs. starting a session, either 4o or o1, that is going to help me with a specific client or student and then telling it how I want it to treat the the various information I’m going to give it… and then giving it that information and then using that session for questions or planning on that specific client/student? Is there a difference? Are there any advantages to doing it one way or the other?

[arata]

A GPT is basically a personal prompt library - that one can share. It has a single instruction box that has about the same authority as ChatGPT “custom instructions” or those instructions of the new ChatGPT “project” group feature.

There’s enough additional guidance placed around the instructions so that you don’t have to do additional work and convincing in a pasted prompt to have ChatGPT assume a sub-identity for its subset of usage, and that main instruction remains persistent while other user inputs can scroll out of the AI’s memory and attention.

The main thing a GPT offers is that it is the exclusive manner to have an external API used as a function the ChatGPT AI can call. As this takes more programming and setup and developer-provided resources than simply talking to the GPT builder “a robot dog that only responds with mechanical dog noises.” - and that you are providing those resources for OpenAI’s benefit more than yours when you publish to the store - utilization is rarely seen.

[phyde1001]

GPTs allow you to access other GPTs I don’t believe you can do this in folders right now but you can from normal 4o chats. So you can pop out conversations to do this.

This allows you to use features of specific different public GPTs in one chat that you can easily select from the public library.

This can give you an unlimited always available ‘function base’ to work from for formatting documents or reviewing according to GPTs set instructions.

Also in ChatGPT customisation gives you 2x1500 character customisation boxes but each GPT has 8k chars.

GPTs don’t have access to user memory.

I think the thing to bear in mind is that Project folders are brand new and GPTs are 1 year old, both have different features and probably have a different place in your system.

[qchsbandkids]

I assume by pop out, you mean clicking on the share button and then creating a link. When I click on share, it gives me the warning message that I have pasted here in a picture. When I try to click on create a link, it won’t do anything. There is a white circle with a cross out on it letting me know the operation of creating a link is not possible. What am I doing wrong?

Once I put a link into another session, does that new session have access to all of the verbiage and information in the old session, minus the pictures, or what is it talking about?

[qchsbandkids]

Also… I see a share button on o1 threads. Does that mean that an o1 thread can access the information in a link, or does o1 not know how to do this?

[arata]

@qchsbandkids

I assume by pop out, you mean clicking on the share button

Rather, what is being referred to is the “mentions” feature. You can begin your input with “@”, and a list of recently-used or pinned GPTs will pop-up for one-time interactions with those GPT instructions within a chat.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/8908924-what-is-the-mentions-feature-for-gpts

What you are encountering is the chat sharing feature, for showing someone else what you made the AI say.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/7925741-chatgpt-shared-links-faq

Although someone else resuming the shared chat (and being able to chat with the same message history in a new chat in their account) was disabled for a long time, that was re-enabled again recently. It does not allow continuing on a GPT’s instructions or a user’s custom instructions - the person getting the share link only gets the prior conversation.

ChatGPT doesn’t let chats with images or files be shared, either because of needing compatibility with free accounts, other technical hurdles in populating and retaining this data to be shared, or simply because OpenAI doesn’t want to be in the business of being repurposed as a image sharing service.

[phyde1001]

@qchsbandkids

I assume by pop out, you mean clicking on the share button and then creating a link.

Sorry by ‘pop out’ I meant take out of the Project folder… I couldn’t access the Mentions feature from chats inside the Project folders

I think arata answered your other questions