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"textContent": "Dirk_Peter:\n\n> After I prompted it to simply fix the “Forgot Password” function\n\n“password reset”, “reset” or \"Zurücksetzen\n\nWell, you’re talking about lawsuits and such, but so far, what I’ve seen in this thread isn’t really much material for that sort of thing.\n\nIt seems to me that a lot of us lost conversations because of a bug that was causing many threads to hang the App.\n\nAnd far as what you’ve shown us, it’s well documented that you don’t prompt codex with highly ambiguous prompts like\n\nSimply ‘fix’ the ‘forget password function.’\n\nYou prompt with exactly what you want done, in detail, use planning, etc.\n\nAmbiguous prompts that are not specific, as you’ve said, are known to lead to ambiguous results.\n\nWhat I find disconcerting is that you’re not even sure which terminology was used in the actual prompt, as you follow up with some other possible terms.\n\nAll I was trying to tell you was that the search button, which I clicked, produces a list of all my threads.\n\nI don’t actually use the search function, I just click on the search and all my threads are immediately listed that were disappeared.\n\nThat’s what I was specifically suggesting to check.\n\nTalking about lawsuits when you’ve opened a thread admitting you put in the sort of prompt that leads to dangerous results in the first place isn’t a conversation that I’m trying to have with you.\n\nMerely what happens when you click the search feature, does the list of your sessions populate in the window that comes up?",
"title": "OpenAI is deleting Conversation in Codex after making huge mistakes with deleting data"
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