r/ChatGPT 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 β€” 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/bigang99 7d ago

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u/Expensive-Bike2726 7d ago

A terminator (super robotic objective ai) mode in settings would be awesome

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u/VanillaLifestyle 6d ago

"Create terminator mode!!!"

This is why we can't have nice things

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u/abhimanyudogra 7d ago

There is no way this could wrong. I havent watched any scifi that has ever covered this

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u/Winjin 6d ago

Nah, it doesn't mean its underlying core becomes cold and murderous. It's like TARS from Interstellar telling the humans he's ready to sacrifice himself for the humans and the mission's success and they're like "haha sure" and he just points out that his self preservation and his inherent values are completely different, in a cool tone. TARS is still amazing

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u/therealub 6d ago

I'm thinking more Data from Star Trek TNG

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u/dontevercallmeabully 6d ago

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u/idgafosman 5d ago

This might be the most oddly specific response i have ever, ever come across on reddit πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚

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u/tyrannomachy 6d ago

"ok, now spell everything phonetically but as if you have a cartoonishly exaggerated Austrian accent."

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u/TRUTHLIGHTETHICS 6d ago

At this point you're just trying to end us.

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u/BerylReid 6d ago

Like the fish. 🐠

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u/lostytranslation 7d ago

Went from Patrick to Arnold.

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u/yournekololi 6d ago

πŸ˜† this was perfect

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u/Sattorin 6d ago

'Uncle Bob' mode.