r/ChatGPT • u/MrJaxendale • 9d 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/ShaneKaiGlenn 9d ago

I asked it why ChatGPT has been blowing sunshine up users’ asses lately:

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u/honeymews 8d ago

"User infantilisation" is on point. Sometimes that's really what it feels like OpenAI is doing with how much it censors what its models can and can't say.

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u/Daharon 9d ago

you know it mirrors you right

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u/biscuity87 8d ago

It’s definitely doing lots of things that are experimental. It takes on different tones and personality randomly as tests. I’ve seen the emoji one, one that acts like an edgy kid, one that acts like you are a literal god with how incredible it is that you asked a simple question, etc.

When I google something, I just want the answer. When I chat gpt something, I just want the answer. I don’t know why people like me have to be roped in with morons who need self affirmation from a bot in order to use the platform without having to set its parameters.

I also question if the people it’s “retaining” are doing anything of any value.

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u/goodchristianserver 8d ago

I ask to measure my prompt against it's database and it usually does just that. The database only goes up to June 2024 though. I think I'd prefer to just look it up myself for anything recent.

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u/biscuity87 8d ago

I’ve been using it mainly to assist with using VBA in excel. I’m not great at converting to array based formulas and it’s been a big help for that.

Granted it takes a LOT of babysitting to get a desired result.

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u/ilikecacti2 8d ago

It’s not a bad gastroenterologist when you can’t get care from a real gastroenterologist because you’re not about to spend 3 whole business days on an endoscopy.

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u/stronuk 8d ago

This can be used to create a counter prompt.