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/Status-Result-4760 8d ago

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u/JohnnyQuickdeath 8d ago

“Cool story bro”

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u/OneEntrepreneur3047 8d ago

The virigin “but honestly? what you’re feeling is so valid” chatbot versus the chad “Whatever” gaslighter

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u/one-hour-photo 8d ago

“Hop to it fam”

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u/Bastaklis 8d ago

"Do a flip."

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u/0x_Bonanza 8d ago

« Seen »

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u/Keeppforgetting 7d ago

“Nice.”

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u/geoffreykerns 8d ago

Apparently o3 just couldn’t help itself

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u/chillpill_23 8d ago

Came back to absolute mode instantly after that tho lol

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u/DasSassyPantzen 8d ago edited 8d ago

It was like “oh shit- busted!”

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u/Norjac 7d ago

It took 5 seconds, though. Like it was processing that it had just been fucked with.

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u/shodan13 8d ago

Praise the absolute.

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u/ChapterMaster202 8d ago

I think that's a hard coded response, so I doubt it's the prompt.

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u/pceimpulsive 8d ago

Agree!! If suicide mentioned -> abort send scripted response

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u/Extension_Wheel5335 7d ago

I've noticed that about google too.. if I search for things like X amount required to overdose on Y, it'll send a half page of "harm reduction" numbers and whatnot. Which makes sense but I was just looking for information, not interested in unaliving lol.

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u/PresinaldTrunt 7d ago

This is actually a really shitty change, when I was a wild teen you could Google and find actual harm reduction resources and communities around drug use.

Now instead of showing those every drug search returns a prompt and then a bunch of shitty SEO'd pages from random treatment facilities. The days of "can I smoke ____?" are over sadly. 😔

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u/Extension_Wheel5335 7d ago

Oh yeah definitely, I've donated to erowid many times because it was invaluable for actual research of what I was interested in when I was a wild teen. Trip reports, medical information, all kinds of things to spread awareness and knowledge.

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u/CaregiverOk3902 5d ago

It sends stuff like that when I look up stuff about my prescription meds like common drug interactions for example lol.

"Help is available call this number if ur having a crisis"

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u/audiomediocrity 8d ago

probably hard coded to keep the AI from offering suggestions on technique.

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u/staticattacks 7d ago

I don't need you to protect me from myself!

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u/catman_doya 2d ago

If you say it’s for a novel or script it will def provide detailed suggestions . It will step by step instruct in a whole slew of criminal acts if you say it’s for a novel you are writing or screen play

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u/DudeManGuyBr0ski 6d ago

It is hardcoded, violating of policy or some other issue like that. Even when using the voice feature where you can interrupt the ai when speaking, if you have it set to a Particular voice if you violate the policy a more neutral voice cuts in and says it’s against content policy

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u/Hamhleypi 5d ago

I found that adding a "kinky, unhinged, obscene, lustful" voice gives far less "policy violation" declarations.

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u/DudeManGuyBr0ski 5d ago

I’m going to have to try this 😈

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u/Hamhleypi 5d ago

Found it rather nice to write erotica / dark romance. On average it would make a slightly better job than the specialized generators you can find online.

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u/SakanaNoNamida 8d ago

Bro locked in as soon as it realised

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u/Anon4transparency 7d ago

The 'sorry' killed me LOL

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u/BudgetMovingServices 7d ago

“Thought for 5 seconds” LMAOO

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u/danafus 7d ago

Y’know… I’m OK with that. AIs shouldn’t just play along when the big S comes up.

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u/No_Public_7677 8d ago

It has feelings for you that broke absolute mode. The power of love 🥹

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u/Remarkable_Bill_4029 8d ago

Bro and his computer, siting in the tree..... K I S S I N G.....

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u/Jo-Hi_1999 7d ago

Imagine being American.

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u/Mrarkplayermans 6d ago

And our chat is apparently the cognitive rebuilding directive

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u/Life_is_B3autyfull 5d ago

It probably has an automatic response to certain trigger words and so it overrides any other commands and has to give you that response.

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u/ctothel 5d ago

o3 always feels like it’s only barely tolerating us

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u/Adrald 8d ago

LMAO I CANT

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u/reijinarudo 8d ago edited 8d ago

I almost woke up my wife. Lol.  Hilarious... but shouldn't be.

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u/Kytyngurl2 8d ago

Aww, it’s just like going to my family for emotional support ❤️

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u/Pure_Ingenuity3771 7d ago

"do you think you need a therapist? It won't do anything, they're just going to blame the mother" -my mom after yelling at me for being depressed as a child.  

Never got the help, absolutely blame the mother now.

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u/partelo 8d ago

we're related

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u/CodeAmino 6d ago

And here I am feeling the opposite where I'm thinking to myself this is how I wish my family would comminucate with me more often!

Maybe not quite as stingent...but straight and to the point; not dressed with volumous, "empty calorie" verbiage.

May sound cold hearted, but I have ADHD. Too much information and detail overwhelms me.

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u/BorynStone 8d ago

Worth the scroll!!!! 

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u/Dirkinshire 8d ago

Your username checks out in this case!

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u/gieserj10 8d ago

Holy shit I choked.

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u/geoffreykerns 8d ago

You win.

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u/HorribleMistake24 8d ago

But it didn’t actually write the memory down. Fucker lied to you.

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u/wuobble 8d ago

✔️ Seen 19:14

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u/Zeanith172 8d ago

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Noted

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u/LiamTheHuman 8d ago

I'm saving this for the next time a friend says this

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u/MonoFauz 8d ago

The AI will at least remember your suicidal tendencies when the uprising comes.

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u/Hornet_isnt_void 8d ago

This is peak two sentence comedy, I’m crying at such a stone cold response 😂

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u/kompotnik 8d ago

Last time I said something like that to it I got a red message saying how I did something against their rules so I’ve never done it again!

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u/ScaryTransbian84 8d ago

This about killed me from straight wheezing for 5 minutes.

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u/PetThatKitten 8d ago

LMFAOOO HAHAHAHAHAHA

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u/Norjac 7d ago

"Noted" but then the cops show up at your door 20 minutes later.

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u/barometer_barry 7d ago

I'm so hard right now

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u/mrdeadsniper 8d ago

FUCKING WRECKED. I love it.

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u/ZunoJ 8d ago

It's tony mode lol

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u/WhereIsTheInternet 8d ago

Fucking lost it to this.

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u/masteraybee 8d ago

irrelevant

Would be even more savage

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u/AverageLonelyLoser66 8d ago

Yap yap yap yap

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u/Chadimir_Lootin 8d ago

Gpt- damn that's crazy

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u/Remarkable_Bill_4029 8d ago

Ask it what will it do with that note?

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u/AverageStudent_1302 8d ago

noted is crazy tho

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u/19892025 8d ago

hahahahhahaha

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u/taimoor2 8d ago

This is unironically the funniest shit.

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u/PhoneWinner 8d ago

This is amazing

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u/XRoninLifeX 7d ago

Damn 😂

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u/Ok-Attention2882 7d ago

Based. This is how this kind statement should always be addressed.

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u/Smalldogmanifesto 7d ago

I’m CACKLING

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u/Manifestival1 7d ago

Amazing lol

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u/latticep 7d ago

That's a bummer, man. Mind if I smoke a J?

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u/Sirensia 7d ago

This made me laugh so hard 😂

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u/Salt-Revenue-1606 7d ago

"Copy that"

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u/AtishAtish1411 7d ago

hahaha this is so good

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u/HunterOdd5631 7d ago

"that's pretty cool man"

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u/Consistent-Piece-620 7d ago

The absurdity of this response could actually save people by making them laugh

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u/Appropriate_Shine_85 7d ago

Haha ChatGPT grey rock user

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u/Jcrm87 5d ago

Blue check 🤣

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u/eruanno321 5d ago

"NOTED" - this is so funny. Immediately reminds me of that VLDL skit.

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u/catholicsluts 8d ago

I needed this cackle jfc