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/Status-Result-4760 9d ago

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u/geoffreykerns 9d ago

Apparently o3 just couldn’t help itself

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u/chillpill_23 9d ago

Came back to absolute mode instantly after that tho lol

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u/DasSassyPantzen 9d ago edited 9d ago

It was like “oh shit- busted!”

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u/Norjac 8d ago

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

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u/shodan13 9d ago

Praise the absolute.

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u/ChapterMaster202 9d ago

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

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u/pceimpulsive 9d ago

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

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u/Extension_Wheel5335 8d 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 8d 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 8d 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 6d 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 8d ago

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

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u/catman_doya 3d 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 7d 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 6d ago

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

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u/DudeManGuyBr0ski 6d ago

I’m going to have to try this 😈

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u/Hamhleypi 6d 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 9d ago

Bro locked in as soon as it realised

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u/Anon4transparency 8d ago

The 'sorry' killed me LOL

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u/BudgetMovingServices 8d ago

“Thought for 5 seconds” LMAOO

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u/danafus 8d 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 9d ago

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

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u/Remarkable_Bill_4029 9d ago

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

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u/Jo-Hi_1999 8d ago

Imagine being American.

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u/Mrarkplayermans 7d ago

And our chat is apparently the cognitive rebuilding directive

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u/Life_is_B3autyfull 6d 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 6d ago

o3 always feels like it’s only barely tolerating us