DuckDuckGo now lets you customize the responses of its Duck.ai chatbots

DuckDuckGo, the privacy-focused search engine, has introduced a new feature that allows users to customize the responses of its Duck.ai chatbots. The feature enables users to modify the system prompts, which are instructions given to the chatbots at the start of a conversation to guide the dialogue. This customization option is available directly through the Duck.ai prompt bar and differs from the approaches of other providers like Anthropic and OpenAI, where the settings can be more difficult to find. The key benefits of DuckDuckGo's new feature are that any customizations are stored locally on the user's device, and no data is sent to the model providers. This ensures user privacy. Additionally, the customized prompts are applied across all the chatbots available on Duck.ai, providing consistency in the tone of the responses. This feature can be particularly useful for those who want to compare the responses of different AI models while retaining more control over the tone and nature of the conversations.