Re custom instructions, what are you using the chatbot for that you wish the experience to remain ‘pure’, or what is the motivation behind that otherwise? (Memory seems more hazardous to me, and I disable it myself since my mental models around both utility and safety work better when conversations don’t overlap, but I also don’t see it as the primary means of injecting anti-sycophancy when one-way custom instructions are available.)
Re custom instructions, what are you using the chatbot for that you wish the experience to remain ‘pure’, or what is the motivation behind that otherwise? (Memory seems more hazardous to me, and I disable it myself since my mental models around both utility and safety work better when conversations don’t overlap, but I also don’t see it as the primary means of injecting anti-sycophancy when one-way custom instructions are available.)