Why AIs slip back into English
Most AI chatbots answer in the language you write in, most of the time. But mixed messages confuse them: a question in Hindi with an English error message pasted in, or Hinglish typed in Roman letters. And in a long chat, an instruction you gave at the start can fade.
How well an AI writes in your language can vary: try it on your own questions and revise the instructions when needed.
Set it once in each AI
Most AIs have a place in their settings for standing instructions about you. In ChatGPT, it's called custom instructions. Write your language rule there, so you don't have to repeat it at the start of every chat.
The catch: you have to do it in each AI, one by one, and each has its own settings page. And the language is rarely the only thing you keep repeating.
Say exactly what you want
A vague "reply in Hindi" leaves room for guessing. Be precise:
LANGUAGE - Reply in Hindi, in Devanagari script. - Keep technical terms (code, product names) in English. - If I write in English, still reply in Hindi, unless I ask otherwise. STYLE - [short answers / step by step / examples first] - [formal or informal]
Swap in Tamil, Bengali or another language, and the script you want. If you mix languages on purpose, say so: "Hindi and English mixed, the way I write, in Roman letters."
The language is one line. The rest is the profile.
If you keep asking for Hindi, you probably also keep asking for shorter answers, simpler words or examples first. Those habits are worth writing down too, once.
The faster way: AI Profile, in Uncook
Uncook's AI Profile reads your own chats and writes a profile of how you write and what you keep asking for, with a short quote or a count behind each point. Open a chat in ChatGPT, Claude or another AI Uncook reads, click the Uncook icon and pick AI Profile.
The profile follows the language of the chats you give it. If you've asked for answers in Tamil again and again, that's the kind of habit it records, with the quote that shows it. Check that it's there; if it isn't, add your language lines from section 3 yourself before you paste.
Then paste the profile into the AI's settings, or at the top of a new chat. It's text: it goes into any AI.
AIs Uncook doesn't read, like Indus
The Uncook extension doesn't read Indus chats. To state your language preferences there, write and paste the instructions yourself.
What you can do: make your profile from your chats in an AI Uncook does read, then paste it by hand at the start of a chat in Indus, or in any other AI. The same goes for WhatsApp, Meta AI and other apps Uncook doesn't read.
Questions people ask
Will the profile make an AI better at my language? No. It tells the AI what you want. How well it writes in Hindi, Tamil or Bengali depends on the AI itself.
Can I use one profile in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini? Yes. It's text you paste. Use the same profile everywhere, or adjust a line for one AI.
Does it work for Hinglish? If that's how you write, the profile can note it from your messages. Add a line saying which script you want the answers in.
Start fresh,
without starting over.
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We don't keep the conversations you bring. When you click Send to Uncook in the extension window, the extension sends the chat from your tab to our servers, encrypted, for up to 30 minutes, and we delete it as soon as your Uncook page opens it. What Uncook makes from it is kept as a task, for as long as our Privacy page says. Neither your chats nor your tasks are used to train AI models.