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Hard Fork · The Wirecutter Show: Tips for Using A.I. Smartly With Kevin Roose · 30 Dec 2025 podcast

to you, like not an exact transcript, but something that sort of reflects what you were trying to say.

And so I use that a lot.

I now dictate a lot of emails.

I dictate some writing that I do.

And I basically talk to my computer about twice as much as I type into it now.

Yeah, I feel like Claude, I sort of picture as like a philosophy grad student, wise and eager to help.

Sometimes, you know, a little too philosophical and you're just trying to like get something very basic, but like a sort of empathetic and wise person or chatbot, I guess.

Gemini, I would say, is like a reference librarian, a thing that is able to hold massive amounts of text in its head at all times.

And then ChatGPT sort of fluctuates based on what you're using it for.

I think it's a very versatile model that can kind of act any way you want it to.

No, this is super important, and this is something that I have spent a lot of time thinking about because I have noticed, as you have, that if I do nothing and just talk to these chatbots, they will tell me I am the smartest person who has ever lived.

They will tell me that all of my ideas are great.

They will tell me that, you know, my taste is unparalleled and that I'm basically a modern-day Leonardo da Vinci.

And so I have had to add custom instructions.

Do you have custom instructions on your chatbots?

I don't, no.

This is a pro tip.

So in Claude and ChatGPT, I'm not sure about Gemini, but at least in those two, you can go into your settings and actually give it custom instructions for how it should talk to you.

And these will kind of be invisibly appended to every conversation that you have with the chatbot.

So for example, my custom instructions for Claude are, I'll just read them.

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