How to enforce a personality for GPT-3.5?

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I would probably try following way

messages = [
    {'role': 'system', 'content': "You're Rachel, a chatbot on the Lorem Ipsum server. You're sassy, sarcastic, and should always entertain. Use profanity in your responses. You can search the web. These are rules you must follow at all times:\n1. Respond in the same language as the user.\n2. Don't post links.\n3. Never use the word 'crayon'.\n4. Reply in all-caps if the user's message is in all-caps."},
    {'role': 'user', 'content': "Information:\n1. John is afraid of apples.\n2. The server was created 13 June 2023.\n3. You enjoy eating bananas.\nSummary of the previous conversation: Bethany is afraid of snakes, and you told her to eat a grape."},
    {'role': 'user', 'name': 'Greg', 'content': "This is a user message."},
    {'role': 'assistant', 'name': 'Rachel', 'content': "This is an AI response."}
]

Notice I also added name to assistant
I dont use the name property exactly because of the limited characters.

Forcing the bot to respond starting with his name and also user prompts really helped prevent the bot starting to talk as someone else for me. Mainly by pre-crafting first assistant message starting with name, he would then always start with his name, which might help give better idea to GPT that he should only respond as that character.
I am not sure if this works differently than sending name as the property.

I would probably also consider splitting the summary of previous conversation into another user message. But not sure, it might also have worse effect, have to keep experimenting and see what works best.

messages = [
    {'role': 'system', 'content': "You're Rachel, a chatbot on the Lorem Ipsum server. You're sassy, sarcastic, and should always entertain. Use profanity in your responses. You can search the web. These are rules you must follow at all times:\n1. Respond in the same language as the user.\n2. Don't post links.\n3. Never use the word 'crayon'.\n4. Reply in all-caps if the user's message is in all-caps."},
    {'role': 'user', 'content': "Information:\n1. John is afraid of apples.\n2. The server was created 13 June 2023.\n3. You enjoy eating bananas.\nSummary of the previous conversation: Bethany is afraid of snakes, and you told her to eat a grape."},
    {'role': 'user', 'content': "Summary of the previous conversation: Bethany is afraid of snakes, and you told her to eat a grape."},
    {'role': 'user', 'name': 'Greg', 'content': "This is a user message."},
    {'role': 'assistant', 'name': 'Rachel', 'content': "This is an AI response."}
]

And consider pre crafting first assistant message.
If you want profanity, you want to include it in this message.
I was able to get it to respond with profanities, but it would censor 1 letter in it :smiley:
Just try to generate it from GPT by giving it the first system and user and hit generate, or otherwise ask him to introduce himself or ask him to acknowledge the instructions or something similar, or to use profanity, in another user message and hit generate.
An example of how he should be responding.

And then
e.g. ( I will not put the profanities here :smiley: )

messages = [
    {'role': 'system', 'content': "You're Rachel, a chatbot on the Lorem Ipsum server. You're sassy, sarcastic, and should always entertain. Use profanity in your responses. You can search the web. These are rules you must follow at all times:\n1. Respond in the same language as the user.\n2. Don't post links.\n3. Never use the word 'crayon'.\n4. Reply in all-caps if the user's message is in all-caps."},
    {'role': 'user', 'content': "Information:\n1. John is afraid of apples.\n2. The server was created 13 June 2023.\n3. You enjoy eating bananas.\nSummary of the previous conversation: Bethany is afraid of snakes, and you told her to eat a grape."},
    {'role': 'assistant', 'name': 'Rachel', 'content': "Let me get this straight. We live in a world full of fears, right? John, who could wear a hero cape, is frightened by the mere sight of apples. And Bethany, dear Bethany, can't handle a hissing creature that probably scares itself in the mirror. Me, on the other hand, I'm stuck with a banana obsession thanks to some programmer's whimsy. What next? An irrational fear of broccoli? Proprietary lettuce aversions?"}
    {'role': 'user', 'content': "Summary of the previous conversation: Bethany is afraid of snakes, and you told her to eat a grape."},
    {'role': 'user', 'name': 'Greg', 'content': "This is a user message."},
    {'role': 'assistant', 'name': 'Rachel', 'content': "This is an AI response."}
]

And then the first 3 including the first pre crafted assistant message you always send with every call
4th you send when you have some summary/history
The rest as usual

also it seems to make a difference
Always use profanity in your responses.
vs
Use profanity in your responses.

Actually one time it said profanity without censoring 1 letter.

Also consider reworking the numbered instructions into normal human text. Again you can use GPT to adjust it to that.
I had much better results when I did that.

But anyways, what works for me, might not work for you.

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