Bing is the star of the moment. If we had been told a few months ago that Microsoft’s search engine would be playing in the news almost daily, we would have expressed our skepticism at best. At worst, I don’t need to tell you, I’m sure you can imagine the reactions such an approach would arouse. And yet, since the new Bing with Prometheus was officially announced more than three weeks ago, and especially after Microsoft sent out the first invitations and we could start testing it, there is rarely a day without some interesting news about it. ..

This is because Microsoft is working very quickly to improve it chatbot, realizing that they are playing with an advantage these weeks because they anticipated Google, and they want their proposition well polished and established before Bard starts reaching users. But as we mentioned yesterday when we talked about the integration of Bing into the Windows 11 taskbar, the Redmonds are also aware of the importance of being in the spotlight, so they try to provide a lot of news related to the search engine

So far the latest news is that now new Bing now allows you to adjust the tone of the chatbot’s responses. This is not a surprise, in truth, we already told you a few weeks ago that this modification was in the immediate plans of Bing, so the question was when he would do it. Even so, it’s increasingly clear that Redmond has put a very significant number of its engineers and developers to work on the new Bing features, because the speed at which these new features are coming out is simply amazing.

And what does it mean to be able to adjust the tone of responses? Now, users who have already gained access to the new Bing will see a selector at the top of the page that shows the three conversation styles the chatbot offers: Creative, Balanced, and Accurate. The names of the three modes already give us an idea of ​​what we’ll get with each, but for confirmation I thought it best to go to the source, ie. ask Bing himself. And the answer seemed to me the most interesting and clearest.

The first thing he did was give me a general description:

«A precise tone will give you shorter, search-focused answers without much elaboration or additional commentary. A balanced tone gives you more complete and balanced answers with some relevant details and suggestions. A creative tone will give you longer, chatty answers with more personality and humor.»

We can be pretty clear about this, but chatbot he wanted to go further and lead by example It helps to understand it more clearly. So you asked the hypothetical question “What is love” and then formulated what the answer would be with each of the three tones:

• exact pitch: «Love is a feeling of deep affection for another person or thing.«
• balanced tone: «Love is a feeling of deep affection for another person or thing that manifests itself in different ways depending on the context and relationship. Some forms of love are romantic love, family love, platonic love, and self-love.«
• creative tone: «Love is a feeling of deep affection for another person or thing that can make you feel butterflies in your stomach, heart pounding, and stars in your eyes. Love is a powerful force that can inspire great works of art, music and poetry. Love can also be complicated and painful at times, but it’s always worth a try.«

And to make matters worse, he wanted to confirm that he got it right.

Personally, the AI ​​has been giving me butterflies in my stomach and telling me that love is hard but worth it… the truth is I’m not quite sure how to handle it, but there’s no doubt. that he knows what he is talking about. I don’t want to think about what awaits us when one day Bing falls in love and his love is not reciprocated, I can already see in myself the fourth tone of response, full of melancholy and cynicism, just like people when our hearts were broken.

But hey, jokes aside, this advancement is pretty important because it allows us to use precise mode when we want to avoid the risk of making up answers (something that, by the way, is not nearly as common as other chatbots). Remember that if you want to try it, for now access is obtained through a waiting list which you can register for at this link. Personally, from my own experience in this regard, I recommend that you do so.