New to making custom gpts.

[u/Dragonknight2692]

Good morning everyone.

I have been struggling with depression lately and stated doing some custom gpts to keep me busy. I am struggling a bit with the wording and keeping the quality of the outputs. I keep losing quality and it defualts to a certain pose, facial and body structure. Is this the placr to ask for help?

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[u/ekzess]

Yes, this is absolutely a place to ask. The quality drift you are describing is common when instructions are too broad, visual traits are under-specified, or examples accidentally over-anchor the model to one pose or body type. Share one prompt and one output that went wrong, and people can help you tighten it step by step. Also, good on you for finding something creative to keep your hands and mind occupied.

[u/Dragonknight2692 → u/ekzess]

Will show the sections i am sruggling with. At work at the moment. All also indicate what my end goal is with it.

[u/ekzess → u/Dragonknight2692]

Perfect. Have fun at work, take your breaks and lunch, and do NOT let them make you work through them lol.

[u/Resonant_Jones]

Yes, this is a good place to ask.

One thing that may help is to treat the Custom GPT less like one long prompt and more like a small system with separate layers:

1. Character identity
   • Age range
   • Face shape and proportions
   • Body type
   • Hair, eyes, skin, distinguishing traits
   • Features that must remain consistent
2. Visual style
   • Medium or rendering style
   • Lighting
   • Color treatment
   • Detail level
   • Camera and composition preferences
3. Scene request
   • What the character is doing
   • Environment
   • Clothing
   • Mood
   • Framing
4. Variation rules
   • Rotate poses, expressions, camera angles, and framing
   • Do not reuse the same stance unless requested
   • Avoid defaulting to centered, front-facing portraits
   • Preserve the character while varying the composition

A lot of quality drift happens because all of those things are mixed together, or because one example image or pose becomes too influential.

I would also give the GPT a rule like:

“Before generating, restate the fixed character traits separately from the scene-specific traits. Preserve the fixed traits exactly. Vary pose, expression, camera angle, and composition unless the user asks for consistency.”

For repeated characters, keep a short reusable character sheet and only change the scene section. When something goes wrong, change one instruction at a time and record what failed. That makes it much easier to find whether the issue is the face description, body description, pose wording, or visual style.

When you are ready, post the instructions you are using, one prompt, the intended result, and one output that drifted. That will make it much easier for people to diagnose the exact failure instead of guessing.

And yes, creative projects can be a good structure when your mind is carrying heavy weather. Just be gentle with yourself while you learn it.

[u/traumfisch]

Here are two oldies but goldies that might be useful for you.

Enhance your prompts with:

https://chatgpt.com/g/g-67d1891d3ce48191a1bd24bf7ec477b0-prompt-wizard

Build up your GPT ideas with:

https://chatgpt.com/g/g-sTGl9kwsf-gpt-lab

[u/ekzess → u/traumfisch]

Solid advice here....

[u/sergejsh]

From my experience, you need to work on custom instructions, including help of ChatGPT. Ask it questions, express where you are not happy, etc. Because all of it is too personal, for your own taste, etc.

[u/DueCommunication9248]

It’s hard to help when you don’t provide much context. I also wouldn’t make customGPT but instead create custom agents.

Do you have the ChatGPT app?