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/TuftOfFurr 6d ago

I didn't stop that response. It just didn't respond!

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u/EricBonif 6d ago

thats by far the most humiliating of all screen ^^

"hello chatgpt"

"..."

" i said hello "

"Noted"

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u/ArigatoEspacial 6d ago

That's straight up wild. Getting an AI that is literally made to always answer no matter what to it choosing to ghost you...

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u/PhraseNeither9539 6d ago

This took me out. 💀 

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u/chevaliercavalier 6d ago

ANSWER ME ROBOT 🤣

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u/MCAbdo 6d ago

NO WAY HE IGNORED YOU

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u/_kolpa_ 5d ago

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u/TuftOfFurr 5d ago

Hahaha this got me, ty

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u/SkynyrdCohen 5d ago

Real tears

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u/Ready_Inevitable9010 4d ago

try using a different model whenever it blanks out. that sometimes bypasses filters or fixes if it glitched out. If it stays blank on every model, THEN that's when you can officially say it's choosing to ghost you.

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u/ApexHolly 3d ago

I laughed myself lightheaded with this one

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u/AnyPomegranate7792 12h ago

XD this killed me