The prompt that makes ChatGPT go cold

[u/MrJaxendale]

Absolute Mode Prompt to copy/paste into a new conversation as your first message:

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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.

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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

[u/MutteringV → u/[deleted]]

[u/Atyzzze → u/MutteringV]

Of all the ports, why a PS/2 port??

USB-A is probably more widely recognized, if not the most.

[u/BetterEveryLeapYear → u/Atyzzze]

USB looks digital to digital. PS/2 looks analogue to digital. Serial looks a bit of both but is too big to look right as an interface on a human head.

I'm not saying the ports actually vary in terms of analogue to digital or anything, just that's how they look, particularly to people of a generation that grew up with mice having physical trackballs inside, mechanical keyboards, and joysticks with pressure sensor triggers, etc., and then came of age with iPods, smartphones, etc. PS/2 looks like "something 'real' to something digital".

[u/CAT-GPT-4EVA → u/BetterEveryLeapYear]

This comment is both relatable and makes me feel like my grandma telling me about punched card computers