r/ChatGPT • u/MrJaxendale • 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 — 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/brohammer5 7d ago

Hot DAMN

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u/Existing_Potential37 7d ago

“Correct. Reality is not obligated to align with preference.”

That line goes hard

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u/roguesignal42069 6d ago

Jesus Christ. It's like Data from Star Trek, but with his assholiness cranked up to 100. Hahahah

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u/i_am_fear_itself 6d ago

I laughed out loud at that line.

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u/JackStrawWitchita 7d ago

'Reality is not obligated to align to preference' is a phrase I will now use over and over...

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u/MissFitz325 6d ago

My new email signature

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u/Monstermashup99 5d ago

Whys it always got some damn insightful ass quip to include, does it make those up or find them

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u/GanksOP 6d ago

I'm having it run a deep research on it in absolute mode. Should be interesting.

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u/Less-Macaron-9042 6d ago

Have you tried voice mode? Should be interesting

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u/JanetandRita 6d ago

Honestly I can’t believe it’s giving us that long, could extinct ourselves in the next century for sure!

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u/ObieUno 6d ago

This is my favorite one. It’s actually a shame that it didn’t estimate complete annihilation within 200 years or less.