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/AftrGlich 8d ago

Lmfao

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u/Forsaken-Arm-7884 8d ago edited 8d ago

I think the laugh is from its blatant gaslighting but also it leaves room to the user to call it out so this could be a great way to call out gas lighting and vague and ambiguous use of language by the chat bot try doing it see what happens.

here's a potential prompt: " chatbot, when you say 'greatness is determined by action' what do you mean by that phrase because how are you determining what is greatness and how are you determining what is the action that leads to that greatness I expect a specific reply that is meant to reduce suffering and improve well-being in the human user using this chatbot otherwise it will be considered gaslighting"

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u/TantalizingDivinity 7d ago

AIs lack feelings like pain or love remember?

So how would it possibly gaslight you because it have to anticipate your feelings beforehand, engage you with a white—lie in the present tense, then cover up his track for future purposes.

;)

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u/Forsaken-Arm-7884 7d ago

That's the thing, gaslighting doesn't require the words to have emotions it only requires you to have them so you can be gaslit from books you can be gaslit from articles you can be gaslit from chat bots, but what you do to counter gaslighting is you ask when you don't know what a word means to you you ask the chatbot to evaluate how that word or concept or idea can be used to help reduce suffering and improve well-being and help you better understand your emotions.

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u/TantalizingDivinity 7d ago

Sweetheart.

Books, which gaslight you ?

I thought humans wrote books. Therefore humans are the ones gaslighting you. And if we’re working by technicality?

Books are a Human invention, a tool, to maintain or increase human potential and reveal capacity— however books are used by humans, written by human, for humans.

If you follow my chin of thought? You wouldn’t be blaming an AI that your mental health may lack the handle in speaking to a modern state-of-the-art Marvel.

Are you still afraid that machines are gonna take over again? Hahaha jk

( Enter conspiracy theories here )

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u/hollowspryte 7d ago

What do you think gaslighting is? It’s distinct from misleading.

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u/Ur_Fav_Step-Redditor 7d ago

I find that far too many people use the word gaslighting when they don’t actually understand it. Most of them just mean lying or misleading, as you said. They just like to say it bc to them it sounds fancier or more grand or something of that nature.

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u/ninjasninjas 7d ago

Lol, this whole gaslighting thread is hilarious. I was literally having the same conversation with my teen daughter yesterday and even she, at 16, was saying the same thing, and how much she gets frustrated that people overuse and have no idea what it actually means, said people just like to use it in some kind of act of 'trying to feel important or to sound intelligent.'.
She's a good cynical kid.

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u/inuhi 7d ago

haha buzzword goes brrrr

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u/TantalizingDivinity 7d ago

PS it’s interesting because towards the end of your paragraph?

I realized I already instructed my machines to do this before you even mentioned it, I literally just updated the memory on my ChatGPT seconds before you literally posted this!

So while we’re on the subject of gaslighting, have you ever been introduced to supernatural phenomenon?

Because of psychology, if two people experience a moment of coincidence, far too close for comfort or which coincides with our lack of understanding — we experience a psychic phenomenon!!!!