Setting custom instructions & profile context Guide

Your profile and custom instructions tell the assistant who you are and how you like to work, so replies arrive already shaped to your role, your context, and your communication style. Set them once and they apply across every conversation.

What personalization does

The assistant is designed to remember who you are. When you provide a few details about yourself and a set of standing preferences, it uses them as background context in each reply, so you spend less time re-explaining and more time getting usable answers.

Personalization draws on two things you control directly:

• Profile context — facts about you and your work, such as your name, role, company, and preferred language.
• Custom instructions — standing guidance on how you want the assistant to respond, such as tone, format, and level of detail.

Because these apply automatically, the assistant can, for example, default to your language, match a preferred writing style, or keep answers concise without you asking each time.

Set your profile context

Adding a little about yourself helps the assistant tailor its work to your situation.

1. Open your Settings from your account menu.
2. Find the personalization or profile area.
3. Fill in details such as your name, role, and company so the assistant understands your context.
4. Set your preferred language if you want replies in a specific language by default.
5. Save your changes.

Keep profile details high-level and relevant to the work you do. The more clearly the assistant understands your role, the better it can frame answers for your audience.

Write effective custom instructions

Custom instructions are where you describe how you want the assistant to respond. Think of them as standing directions that apply to every new conversation.

Useful things to specify include:

• Tone and voice — for example, professional and concise, or warm and conversational.
• Format preferences — whether you favor bullet points, short paragraphs, or numbered steps.
• Level of detail — quick summaries versus thorough, in-depth answers.
• Context about your work — the industry, audience, or products you deal with most.
• Things to avoid — words, formats, or approaches you'd rather the assistant skip.

Be specific and concrete. "Reply in short paragraphs, lead with the recommendation, and avoid jargon" gives the assistant far more to work with than "be clear."

Tip: Custom instructions work best as durable preferences that apply to most of your conversations. For a one-off request — say, a longer reply than usual — just ask for it directly in the chat. You can always override a standing preference in the moment.

Steering a single reply

Personalization sets your defaults, but you stay in control of any individual answer. If a reply isn't quite right, you can steer it without changing your saved settings:

• Ask the assistant to make a reply shorter, longer, more formal, or more detailed.
• Request a different format, such as a table or a step-by-step list.
• Regenerate the last answer if you'd like a fresh attempt.

These in-the-moment adjustments apply only to the current conversation, so your standing custom instructions remain intact.

Keeping it current

Your role, priorities, and preferences change over time. It's worth revisiting your profile and custom instructions periodically to keep them accurate.

1. Return to your personalization settings.
2. Update any details that have changed, or refine instructions that aren't producing the results you want.
3. Save, then test with a typical request to confirm the assistant responds the way you expect.

Small, iterative tweaks tend to work best. If replies drift from what you want, tightening a single instruction is often all it takes to bring them back in line.

Your information stays private

The profile details and instructions you provide are used to personalize your own experience with the assistant. You can review and update them at any time from your settings, and remove anything you no longer want the assistant to consider.