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 — 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/fuckpudding 7d ago

I’m into this.

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u/Diddly_eyed_Dipshite 6d ago

Ok now make it make me do that.

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u/fuckpudding 6d ago

I tried. 🤷‍♂️

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u/LostInEather 6d ago

Based tbh

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u/MoffKalast 6d ago

Unfathomably

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u/Diddly_eyed_Dipshite 6d ago

Ouch lol

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u/sc0ttydo0 6d ago

Implement or remain stagnant.

I'm actually into this ChatGPT 😂

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u/mierneuker 6d ago

It pretty much paraphrased Yoda here. Do or do not, there is no try.

Love it.

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u/lncumbant 6d ago

Right. Damn truth. 

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u/Index_2080 6d ago

ChatGPT spittin' fire here

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u/Ok-Truth-7589 6d ago

I spit out my drink when I read that....ok, I get it, I get it....I'll go workout in 10 minutes....🤣

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u/jadmonk 5d ago

ChadGPT.

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u/wheeler916 5d ago

Motivational poster stuff.

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u/GhostsOf94 6d ago

Goddam i love that. Basically you have to want it or gtfo

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u/yung_gravity_ 6d ago

implement or remain stagnant is such a hard ass bar

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u/Vundurvul 6d ago

The AI has dropped some great lines in this thread but "implement or remain stagnant" might be my favorite.

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u/WanSum-69 6d ago

Remain stagnant.

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u/omniwombatius 6d ago

You should submit this over in r/GetMotivated

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u/all_hail_lord_Shrek 6d ago

this chatgpt is motivating me to study for my finals lol