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First lab note published

Written by Alec Fearon on 18 June 2025 in Anapoly Diary
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We’ve just posted our first lab note.

It documents an internal experiment to refine the custom instructions we use with ChatGPT – what we expect from it, how it should respond, and how to keep it useful across different tasks. The aim is to define a persona for the AI assistant that is more consistent and can adapt to the different types of assistance required of it.

It’s a good example of how we’re using the Labs: not to explain AI, but to find out what it’s actually good for.

Read the lab note → Custom Instructions for ChatGPT