LARRUZ shows how to make ChatGPT always reply in any language by adding one line to Custom Instructions, like "Always answer in Spanish." He argues composing prompts in English while forcing responses in another language gets better results from the model.
LARRUZ
Dec 1, 2023
"Always answer in Spanish."
Slovakia
Have you ever wanted to change ChatGPT to speak in an entirely different language? Well, there's nothing in the menu, but I found the easiest and best way to do this. And all you need to do is include this one line in your custom instructions, which you can access through settings, and then custom instructions. You'll just say response language, unless I give you other instructions. Always answer in Spanish. Safe. And if we just pick one of these preset prompts, Recommend a dish. There you go. We're getting the answer in Spanish. Now, look, you might be saying, but, Igor, if I write the prompt in Spanish, it will automatically respond in Spanish. Why should I do this? And to that I'd say, yes, that's true. But come consider that ChatGPT has been trained on English data, so its understanding of what you're asking for is way deeper. If you ask in English, in Spanish, it might be not so obvious, but in smaller countries, just like Slovakia, where I come from, you really feel the difference, and you can see that it doesn't understand your request as well as it would in English. And this way you can get the best of both worlds.
