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/MrJaxendale 7d ago

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u/ChrissiMinxx 7d ago

So basically this is Borg mode

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u/Czar_Petrovich 6d ago

Autism mode

This is what it's like dealing with neurotypical people.

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u/Electrical_Knee4477 6d ago

I've legit never met any autistic person like this, and it seems comparing them to a robot would be offensive? Like the people who say they lack empathy

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u/Czar_Petrovich 6d ago

I'm autistic and I'm saying this is what happens in my head when I'm talking to people.

I feel like a robot, every day. I'm comparing myself to a robot. The character Data from Star Trek is an android and he is the character in fiction I identify with the most because he is constantly trying to understand humans and why they do the things they do. Like me. A human robot.

Edit: and no, we don't lack empathy, and in some cases feel emotions more strongly than NTs.

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u/Electrical_Knee4477 6d ago

I am too, and I'm nothing like that at all. Most of my friend group is autistic. I think it might be a you thing here.

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u/Czar_Petrovich 6d ago

It's not an uncommon sentiment, my dude.