ChatGPT seems to have become a LinkedIn lunatic. I just asked Opus and ChatGPT to explain bitonic sort:
Opus: Let me build an interactive explainer for bitonic sort (builds diagram/no nonsense)
GPT:
"This algorithm feels weird but once you see it it clicks"
(Emoji) The Core Idea ...; (Emoji) High-Level Flow ...; (Emoji) Superpower ...; (Emoji) Why You Should Care;
"If you want, I can: ... (things it wants me to do next)"
ChatGPT allows setting a "personality" profile Settings -> "Base style and tone". Try the "Efficient" setting. Its great. no emoji, no clickbait.
Yeah I don't know what this new clickbait persona they added to 5.4
I have a system instruction for chatgpt to never use emojiis.
It ignores it half of the time.
I can see why you would want to have something like this in a live weapon system :) ;) (>
If I end up using ChatGPT for any reason, I always preface with something like "2 sentences maximum. No emojis. Be professional." at the very least. It tends to improve things a bit.
Opposite for me: Claude has been schizophrenic and just wasting my time with red herrings while Codex has been saving time.
I use both just for code/logic review, for 2D Godot games, never for generating or editing code.
After asking Claude Opus 4.6 to review a single file in a simple platformer game, it goes:
> Claude: Coyote jump fires in the wrong direction (falling UP with inverted gravity)
var fallVelocity: float = body.velocity.y \* body.up_direction.y
Me: Ok, suggest a fix> Claude: I owe you a correction: after re-analyzing the math more carefully, the lines are actually correct — my original review point was wrong. Let me walk through why.
It's had several other gaffes like this where it reports a finding then immediately backtracks when asked to explain, and the UI/UX is still crap (fonts don't get applied, it doesn't catch up with the updated working state after editing files etc.)
I have lots of other examples and could post screenshots of asking the same thing from Codex vs Claude, and Claude is consistently wonkier, or it just tries too hard.
Either way it seems we're entering a new frontier of fanboyism to rival the Mac vs PC wars :)
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In you settings [0] you can change how it should speak. Emojis, warm, enthusiastic, tone and more.
[0] https://chatgpt.com/#settings/Personalization