Bake your favorite AI lines into ChatGPT's custom instructions (so you stop retyping them): A step-by-step walkthrough and a template you can use

If you tried Wednesday’s five lines, you’ve spent the last few days pasting them at the end of every AI request. After a week of that, the novelty wears off. The lines work, but typing them out (or remembering to copy them) gets old fast.

There’s a way to put your standing preferences into ChatGPT once and have them apply to every conversation automatically. The setting has been there the whole time. Most people have never opened it.

It takes about ten minutes. The hardest part is figuring out what to put in — and we’ll handle that with a starter set you can paste right now.

Today: how to set up ChatGPT’s custom instructions, what to put in them, and what to leave out.