Comment by SoftTalker

Go into your user settings -> personalisation. They’ve recently added dropdowns to tune its responses. I’ve set mine to “candid, less warm” and it’s gotten a lot more to-the-point in its responses.

ChatGPT can very much be that way.

It can also be terse and cold, while also somewhat-malleably insistent -- like an old toolkit in the shed.

It's all tunable.