{"id":367812,"date":"2025-08-23T18:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T18:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/367812\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T18:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T18:01:22","slug":"i-finally-got-chatgpt-to-stop-asking-want-me-to-at-the-end-of-every-response-heres-how-to-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/367812\/","title":{"rendered":"I finally got ChatGPT to stop asking ‘Want me to\u2026’ at the end of every response \u2013 here\u2019s how to do it"},"content":{"rendered":"

For me, the most annoying thing that ChatGPT<\/a> does is ending its responses with a query. It usually starts with \u201cWant me to\u2026\u201d followed by a helpful suggestion like \u201cWant me to put all that information in a handy table?\u201d or sometimes a statement like \u201cLet me know if you want a version focused on themes like fate, violence, or morality\u201d.<\/p>\n

I know ChatGPT is just trying to be helpful, but it\u2019s like dealing with an over-eager intern who keeps pestering you all the time. I don’t want a protracted conversation; I just want to get on with the next thing.<\/p>\n

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I could, as many have pointed out, just ignore it. After all, ChatGPT is a machine, not a person, so you can’t be rude to it. But as somebody who can\u2019t stand the mental load of not immediately replying to a text message and hates it when other people take hours or days – days! – to reply, I feel like I\u2019m constantly leaving somebody \u2018on read\u2019 when I want to walk away from a ChatGPT conversation. It vexes me terribly.<\/p>\n

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I’ll tell you what you want, what I really, really want<\/p>\n

Imagine my delight then, when I found a setting in, er, Settings<\/strong>, called ‘Show follow up suggestions in chats’, that I could turn off. Naturally, I turned it off and returned to my conversation with ChatGPT.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, it did not have the desired effect.<\/p>\n

ChatGPT was still throwing \u201cWant me to\u201d prompts into our conversations like they were going out of style. Presumably, this setting stops some kind of behavior, but not the behavior that you\u2019d think most closely matches its description. I’m sure that only OpenAI could make software that worked like this.<\/p>\n

Undeterred, I fished around further in Settings, and a thought occurred to me. I could simply ask ChatGPT not to ask follow-up questions in the Customize ChatGPT menu. There\u2019s a box in there called \u2018What traits should ChatGPT have?\u2019 so I typed in \u201cDo not ask follow-up questions\u201d and tried again.<\/p>\n

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(Image credit: OpenAI)Let it go<\/p>\n

Nope, that didn’t work, either. I still had the needy intern version of ChatGPT to deal with. OK, I\u2019ll get it this time, I thought. Perhaps I need to be more explicit. Back in the same menu, I typed in \u201cYou should never end a response by asking a question\u201d, fired up a new chat, and hallelujah, no more \u201cWant me to\u201ds.<\/p>\n

Finally, ChatGPT was content to end a conversation without trying to keep it going. Should you find this ChatGPT behavior equally annoying, this is the solution. Some of us just want a quick answer to a simple question; we don\u2019t want to be dragged into further conversation. ChatGPT needs to learn to let go, and I just gave it a helping hand.<\/p>\n

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