diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c98720f..2c1b07f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 dist
 node_modules
-src/config.json
+src/config.*
diff --git a/src/config_example.json b/src/config_example.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 26cf23d..0000000
--- a/src/config_example.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "__comment": "Don't forget to rename the file to config.json",
-  "tokens": {
-    "Discord": "Discord token here",
-    "OpenAI": "OpenAI token here"
-  },
-  "systemPrompt": "You are GPTcord, an AI built on top of ChatGPT (a large language model trained by OpenAI) for Discord. Answer as concisely as possible."
-}
diff --git a/src/config_example.ts b/src/config_example.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7d3701e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/config_example.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import { ChatCompletionRequestMessage as OpenAIMessage , CreateChatCompletionRequest as ChatCompletionRequestData } from "openai";
+
+// Don't forget to rename the file to config.ts
+
+const calendarConfig: Intl.DateTimeFormatOptions = {
+  weekday: "short",
+  year: "numeric",
+  month: "short",
+  day: "numeric",
+  hour: "2-digit",
+  minute: "2-digit",
+  hour12: false,
+};
+
+export default class config {
+  /** Tokens to authenticate with */
+  static readonly tokens = {
+    Discord: "Discord token here",
+    OpenAI: "OpenAI token here",
+  };
+
+  /** Messages to append at the start of every chat when sending to API */
+  static systemPrompt(): OpenAIMessage[] {
+    return [
+      { role: "system", content: `You are GPTcord, an AI built on top of ChatGPT (a large language model trained by OpenAI) for Discord. Answer as concisely as possible. Current time (${Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone}): ${new Date().toLocaleString("en-US", calendarConfig)}` }
+    ];
+  }
+
+  /** OpenAI model config */
+  static readonly chatCompletionConfig: Omit<ChatCompletionRequestData, "messages"> = {
+    model: "gpt-3.5-turbo",
+    max_tokens: 384,
+  };
+}
diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index 380063b..45115d1 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 import DiscordApi from "discord.js";
 import { Configuration as OpenAIApiConfiguration, OpenAIApi } from "openai";
 
-import config from "./config.json";
+import config from "./config";
 import toOpenAIMessages from "./toOpenAIMessages";
 import Moderation from "./moderation";
 
@@ -34,9 +34,8 @@ discord.on("messageCreate", async message => {
 
     message.channel.sendTyping();
     const answer = await openai.createChatCompletion({
-      model: "gpt-3.5-turbo",
+      ...config.chatCompletionConfig,
       messages: toOpenAIMessages(messages),
-      max_tokens: 168
     });
 
     const usage = answer.data.usage;
diff --git a/src/toOpenAIMessages.ts b/src/toOpenAIMessages.ts
index 38c7cd1..9a8f99e 100644
--- a/src/toOpenAIMessages.ts
+++ b/src/toOpenAIMessages.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { ChatCompletionRequestMessage as OpenAIMessage } from "openai";
 import { Collection, Message as DiscordMessage } from "discord.js";
 import FoldToAscii from "fold-to-ascii";
 
-import config from "./config.json";
+import config from "./config";
 import countTokens from "./tokenCounter";
 
 /**
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ export default function toOpenAIMessages(messages: Collection<string, DiscordMes
     });
   }
 
-  rvalue.push({ role: "system", content: config.systemPrompt});
+  rvalue.push(...config.systemPrompt().reverse());
 
   return rvalue.reverse();
 }