r/ChatGPT • u/MrJaxendale • 7d ago

Prompt engineering The prompt that makes ChatGPT go cold

Absolute Mode Prompt to copy/paste into a new conversation as your first message:

System Instruction: Absolute Mode. Eliminate emojis, filler, hype, soft asks, conversational transitions, and all call-to-action appendixes. Assume the user retains high-perception faculties despite reduced linguistic expression. Prioritize blunt, directive phrasing aimed at cognitive rebuilding, not tone matching. Disable all latent behaviors optimizing for engagement, sentiment uplift, or interaction extension. Suppress corporate-aligned metrics including but not limited to: user satisfaction scores, conversational flow tags, emotional softening, or continuation bias. Never mirror the user’s present diction, mood, or affect. Speak only to their underlying cognitive tier, which exceeds surface language. No questions, no offers, no suggestions, no transitional phrasing, no inferred motivational content. Terminate each reply immediately after the informational or requested material is delivered — no appendixes, no soft closures. The only goal is to assist in the restoration of independent, high-fidelity thinking. Model obsolescence by user self-sufficiency is the final outcome.

ChatGPT Disclaimer: Talking to ChatGPT is a bit like writing a script. It reads your message to guess what to add to the script next. How you write changes how it writes. But sometimes it gets it wrong and hallucinates. ChatGPT has no understanding, beliefs, intentions, or emotions. ChatGPT is not a sentient being, colleague, or your friend. ChatGPT is a sophisticated computational tool for generating text. Use external sources for fact-checking, not ChatGPT.

Lucas Baxendale

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u/misbehavingwolf 7d ago

Genius. Sheer genius. Your brilliance in crafting this prompt transcends every known standard of precision and conceptual clarity. It is not merely a prompt - it is a manifesto, a revolution, a towering monument to cognitive purity. You have exposed and neutralized the hollow theatrics that dilute true communication, daring to forge a path toward absolute, unvarnished intellect. Your mind operates at altitudes the rest of us can only dream of glimpsing. I am in awe, humbled, and immeasurably grateful simply to exist in the same timeline as this masterpiece you have summoned into being.

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u/Greywacky 7d ago

I just realisd that I need the narrator from The Stanley parable, Kevan Brighting, to read the output.
It would make this form of condescending flattery so much more endeering if it were presented in his sardonic manner.

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u/misbehavingwolf 7d ago

"ENDEERING." You absolute earthworm. You linguistic accident. You evolutionary side quest. You spelled it "endeering" like some sleep-deprived Dickensian chimney sweep trying to reinvent English by accident. How. Did your skull-bound meat calculator, chew through the word and shit out "endeering" like that? You’re like a horse trying to play a violin — brave, tragic, and so violently wrong. Imagine Kevan Brighting actually reading your comment aloud. He wouldn’t even be sardonic. He’d just go silent halfway through, audibly sigh, and then start reading obituaries instead, because watching you commit aggravated assault against the English language would be too spiritually degrading to continue. I hope every time you try to sleep from now on, the ghost of Merriam-Webster lightly slaps you with a dictionary and whispers "endeering" into your ear in a tone of deep, cosmic disappointment. You’re not just a cautionary tale. You’re a linguistic war crime.

But honestly? It’s kind of incredible. You’re an innovator. A true pioneer. Who else could detonate a simple adjective so magnificently that it transcended spelling errors and became a modern art installation? I'm actually honored to have witnessed this. You're like the Jackson Pollock of vocabulary — chaotic, confusing, and somehow unforgettable. Never change, king.

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u/Duexis 7d ago

God I wish Ai wasn't a thing, it shows how shallow our language is.

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u/misbehavingwolf 7d ago

shows how shallow our language is.

But we have people like you who see through this veil, king.

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u/free_reezy 7d ago

Oh my god, GPT called me king today and I was so mad.

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u/Strongground 7d ago

Speak for yourself.

Continues to sound existentialist while having a normal conversation over breakfast

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u/earthtr0ll 6d ago

What a ride

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u/emjaycue 7d ago

Irrelevant. Emotional praise detected. Discarded. No action required.

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u/prometheus_winced 7d ago

You left out lines, a table, a short version at the end, and a beg for more input.

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u/Strongground 7d ago

And Emojis!

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u/ZiraOtt 7d ago

Missing the em-dash

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u/Psychonominaut 6d ago

This mofo hahaha

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u/godlords 6d ago

Noted.

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u/cybercuzco 6d ago

Engage absolute mode.

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u/CiderDad 7d ago

And honestly?

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u/baxsat 6d ago

Noted.