Key Points
- OpenAI released GPT-5.2 with new personalization settings for ChatGPT.
- Users can now adjust levels of warmth, enthusiasm, and emoji usage. The update helps fix complaints that the AI sounded rude or cold.
- Previous updates included styles like “Professional,” “Candid,” and “Quirky.”
- These changes respond to negative feedback from the initial GPT-5 rollout.
OpenAI recently gave its famous chatbot a professional makeover with the GPT-5.2 release, but the results haven’t pleased everyone. Many users started complaining that the AI sounded cold, distant, or even a bit rude. To address this, OpenAI is introducing new personalization settings that let users adjust the chatbot’s “vibe.” If you find ChatGPT too sassy or robotic, you can now instruct it to be warmer or enthusiastic.
In a recent announcement on X, OpenAI showed off several new sliders in the personalization menu.
Users can now adjust four specific traits: Warmth, Enthusiasm, Emojis, and Headers & Lists. For each of these, you can choose “more,” “less,” or stick with the “default” setting. This gives you much more control over how the AI speaks to you. If you want a bubbly assistant that uses lots of heart emojis, you can have it. If you prefer a short, dry response without any bullet points, you can set it that way too.
These new options build on an update from about a month ago. In that version, GPT-5.1, OpenAI added three basic tones: Professional, Candid, and Quirky. The goal is to make the AI feel like a better fit for a wider range of work and personal conversations.
The rush to add these personality settings likely stems from a rough patch earlier this year. When OpenAI first launched GPT-5 to replace GPT-4o, users were not happy. Many people felt the new model lacked the friendly, conversational feel of the older version. The backlash was so strong that OpenAI had to allow users to switch back to older models while promising to make GPT-5 feel more “human.” These new toggles are the company’s way of following through on that promise.
Now, instead of everyone getting the same robotic tone, users can fine-tune the AI to be as friendly or as professional as they want.
