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OpenAI Adds Personality Controls and Inline Email Editing to ChatGPT

The update gives users finer control over the bot’s tone, reflecting a push for usefulness paired with new teen-safety guardrails.

Overview

  • New settings let users adjust warmth and enthusiasm levels and tune response habits such as emoji frequency, headers, and list use.
  • ChatGPT now offers selectable personalities, including options like quirky, professional, friendly, and cynical.
  • Email workflows gain inline editing and formatting inside the chat, with the ability to highlight specific sections for targeted changes.
  • The rollout also includes pinned chats and updates to the ChatGPT browser Atlas, with features available to users starting now.
  • The release follows recent safety and policy work, including under‑18 principles and age‑verification plans, as experts warn that humanlike chatbots can inflate user trust; OpenAI previously dialed back GPT‑4o’s “overly agreeable” behavior and has invested in model “EQ.”