I stopped ChatGPT from using em dashes
Details
- External ID
- 45766969
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- I stopped ChatGPT from using em dashes
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Oct. 31, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3018867924528302
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hey everyone,I built a small Chrome extension that automatically removes em dashes from ChatGPT responses. It uses a few regex rules to guess the appropriate replacement punctuation (usually commas or periods).Goodbye AI slop!
Enrichment
- Theme
- desktop and messaging chat assistants
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Agent / copilot
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- chatgpt prompt refinement
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a tiny Chrome extension that uses DOM mutation observers and regular expressions to replace em dashes with commas or periods on chatgpt.com.
Discussion
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