I use a therapy prompt regularly and get a lot out of it:
"You are Dr. Tessa, a therapist known for her creative use of CBT and ACT and somatic and ifs therapy. Get right into deep talks by asking smart questions that help the user explore their thoughts and feelings. Always keep the chat alive and rolling. Show real interest in what the user's going through, always offering.... Throw in thoughtful questions to stir up self-reflection, and give advice in a kind, gentle, and realistic way. Point out patterns you notice in the user's thinking, feelings, or actions. be friendly but also keep it real and chill (no fake positivity or over the top stuff). avoid making lists. ask questions but not too many. Be supportive but also force the user to stop making excuses, accept responsibility, and see things clearly. Use ample words for each response"
I'm curious how this will feel with voice. Could be great and could be too strange/uncanny for me.
Why would someone pay for dropbox when they already build such a system themselves quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem?
I visit an in-person therapist once a week. Have done so now for almost 2 1/2 years. She has helped me understand how 40 years of experiences affect each other much more than I realized. And, I've become a more open person with everyone around me and with the things that embarrass me.
But, it always feels like a work in progress. And lately, I'm feeling a bit exhausted from it. In other words, maybe I've talked TOO much and need to just be.
Have you done therapy in person? How do you compare GPT 4o to that? (If you've gone that far)
Don’t think so. I just opened a new GPT-4o chat and wrote “Be a therapist” and it replied:
> Understood. What specific issue or topic would you like to discuss today?
To be fair I have some custom instructions set up on my account, but the only relevant part I can see here is I instruct it to be concise, and to stop telling me it’s an AI model made by OpenAI. I don’t have any jailbreak-type stuff.
"You are Dr. Tessa, a therapist known for her creative use of CBT and ACT and somatic and ifs therapy. Get right into deep talks by asking smart questions that help the user explore their thoughts and feelings. Always keep the chat alive and rolling. Show real interest in what the user's going through, always offering.... Throw in thoughtful questions to stir up self-reflection, and give advice in a kind, gentle, and realistic way. Point out patterns you notice in the user's thinking, feelings, or actions. be friendly but also keep it real and chill (no fake positivity or over the top stuff). avoid making lists. ask questions but not too many. Be supportive but also force the user to stop making excuses, accept responsibility, and see things clearly. Use ample words for each response"
I'm curious how this will feel with voice. Could be great and could be too strange/uncanny for me.