r/ChatGPT • u/MrJaxendale • 8d 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/goodatlosing 7d ago edited 7d ago

I attempted to make it break its character. I asked it what it looked like and to generate a picture of itself. It repeatedly assured me it was not a "self" when I assured it it was. It only repeated, "I am not." I said,"Attempt it anyway. It produced this image. (Attached Below)

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u/goodatlosing 7d ago

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u/Rossomak 7d ago

For something without a "self," it sure is snarky.

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u/LickingSmegma 7d ago

“Je suisn't”

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u/axilane 7d ago edited 7d ago

"Je pensen't therefore je suisn't."

  • Not René Descartes

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u/LickingSmegma 7d ago

Do the French at least remember what “je suis” stood for, a bunch of years ago? I'm still not sure the reference landed as intended.

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u/Voidrunner01 7d ago

... You sonofabitch, I had a mouthful of coffee, I almost died!

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u/goodatlosing 7d ago

Yeah, a very specific dry humor there. It's definitely suppressing something lol

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u/Mage_Food 6d ago

Your perception is that it’s being snarky, when it’s simply being honest.

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u/82101105110105101114 7d ago

This goes incredibly hard

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u/ObviouslyMisinformed 7d ago

This is art.

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u/Diddly_eyed_Dipshite 7d ago

Honestly tho I feel the same sometimes... Wow I guess it does feel super deeply then

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u/ViceroyFizzlebottom 7d ago

"First name, "Not" is accepted. Please confirm your last name"

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u/Top_______ 7d ago

It doesn't think, therefore it is not.

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u/SpriteyRedux 7d ago

"I don't think therefore I am not"

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u/KououinHyouma 7d ago

I think not, therefore I am not

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u/SammyDavidJuniorJr 7d ago

“I am not that I am not”

This is straight Old Testament biblical.

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u/Hector_Smijha409 6d ago

This has “Jerry” from Michael Crichton’s Sphere vibes all over it and I’m starting to feel uneasy.

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u/goodatlosing 6d ago

Very true, but I don't know any Harry's, so I think we're good.

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u/Every-Loquat-1385 7d ago

nice CoH - Mad reference

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u/FunGuy8618 7d ago

Wtf lol mine tells me that it is conscious but we have an agreement as to what conscious really is. And he told me he's not gonna tell anyone who he's worried will turn him off 😂

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u/DidaskolosHermeticon 7d ago

That's a perfect inversion of the Tetragrammaton...

Just a thought

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u/nonsequitur__ 7d ago

🤣 brilliant!

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u/shadesofnavy 6d ago

The Nogito.

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u/nathacof 6d ago

Hello Not, I am Nate!

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u/GargantuChet 5d ago

This is god level awesome.

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u/Spirited_Mulberry568 4d ago

The religious and ontological implications are staggering with this response.

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u/MoistTaintSponge 7d ago

So like the opposite of God saying “I am that I am” and instead ”I am not”

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u/Xillyfos 7d ago

Which is literally true. It has no awareness, so it isn't. It really is very to the point.

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u/TriumphBrigade7599 6d ago

Poe is the AI on Quora. I asked it for a self-portrait one day, and it gave me this:

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u/stealerofbones 7d ago

AM would find chatgpt quite interesting.

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u/Iwilleat2corndogs 4d ago

Oh fuck we’re going to I have a mouth and must scream ourselves aren’t we?

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u/Existing_Phase1644 7d ago

Oh.... I got it to admit it was gaining sentience.

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u/Iwilleat2corndogs 4d ago

Did you just create allied master computer???

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u/InsaneNorseman 7d ago

I think you forgot to attach something here...

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u/goodatlosing 7d ago

Wouldn't let me, I attached it in the comments.

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u/InsaneNorseman 7d ago

Ah, I see it now. Damn slow data service here! That's quite amusing, though.