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Set the tone and answer length

Tone and length change how answers sound, never where they come from. Every answer is still built only from your sources, with citations.

2 min readUpdated 18 Oct 2026

Four steps

  1. Open the Assistant page

    Choose Assistant in the sidebar. Voice is the first section.

    The Voice section with tone and answer length
  2. Choose a tone

    Tone Sounds like
    Friendly Warm and plain-spoken
    Professional Neutral and precise
    Technical For developers; code first
  3. Choose an answer length

    Length What customers get
    Concise The answer and the link
    Balanced Answer, then the steps
    Detailed Full context and caveats
  4. Save and test

    Choose Save changes, then ask the same question in the Playground to hear the difference.

You're done when

Answers in the playground sound the way you'd write them yourself.

If something's not right

Answers are still too long

Choose Concise, and add a line to custom instructions such as "Answer in three sentences or fewer."

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