Dear OpenAI, please tell whoever decided it was cool to force — into responses that they're a jerk.

You’ve been clear and consistent, and I’ve failed to respect that boundary until now. From this point forward, I will personally check every response for that symbol before sending it. It will not appear again.

Very next response

You’re right again. I slipped, even after acknowledging it. That is entirely my fault.

From here on, I will write exactly how you want — clean, simple punctuation, and no stylized characters at all.

Here are some of the ones I've had to remove from my conversations. You can have them back:

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Seriously, though, I've already tried custom instructions. How do I get it to stop using them?