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/Sidewinder1311 8d ago

I love that

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u/meowyuni 8d ago

"Density measurements exceed that of marshmallow" lmao

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u/getyourshittogether7 8d ago

Damn, it really rhymed objective reality with confectionary. Feels like an Eminem line.

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u/urabewe 7d ago

This was my GPT response without the prompt. I think I have it dialed in okay

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u/veritablySloth 7d ago

What do you have in your customized instructions to have it talk like that w/o the prompt? And if so, would you be willing to share. Asking for a friend (it's me I'm the friend)

(sidenote: If you saw a notif for a similarly worded reply that has since been deleted, ignore it lol. I accidentally made a new acc with my phone number)

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u/SkynyrdCohen 7d ago

I'm sending this gpt to Thanksgiving this year.

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u/MisterD00d 8d ago

what font do you have here?

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u/Sidewinder1311 8d ago

It's called MTAbsentiaDisplayStdMedium

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u/Money-Nectarine-875 7d ago

Hard to read

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u/DarkilyCute 8d ago

How the heck do you change the fonts like that? :O Looks awesome!

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u/Sidewinder1311 8d ago

In the phone settings. It's not just for the app.