Now you can tweak how heat and enthusiastic ChatGPT’s responses are

OpenAI gave its AI chatbot an expert makeover with the most recent GPT-5.2 release, and some users are already complaining about its tone. For anybody who’s discovering ChatGPT impolite or sassy, OpenAI has some welcome information because it’s letting customers additional customise its persona with further heat or enthusiasm.

In a post on X, OpenAI revealed that customers can modify traits beneath new Heat, Enthusiastic, Header & Lists and Emoji choices discovered within the Personalization settings. Between the 4 choices, you possibly can select between extra, much less or default to fine-tune precisely the way you need ChatGPT to sound in its responses. These new traits come a few month after OpenAI added Skilled, Candid and Quirky choices to GPT-5.1 beneath the “Base type and tone” setting that is additionally discovered within the Personalization tab.

The most recent customizations seemingly stem from the fiasco that OpenAI confronted earlier this 12 months when it rolled out GPT-5 to interchange GPT-4o. The outcry from customers revolved across the newest replace sounding much less conversational and pleasant, main OpenAI to supply the choice to decide on between fashions and promising to make GPT-5 really feel hotter.