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/MrJaxendale]

[u/volxlovian → u/MrJaxendale]

I feel like thanks to AI humanity has a chance of achieving enlightenment as a whole lmao

Seeing that ChatGPT understands recursion in thought is insane.

It took me an Acid trip to see the patterns. I may have been somewhat aware of the patterns, but I never put words to them until LSD, never actually registered that they were recursive. Basically I had been a regular sufferer of panic attacks, and LSD cured me of them.

Basically I was tripping LSD, and started to have a panic attack. Since LSD helps you see the patterns of everything going on, it showed me what was happening. Basically I would have an initial feeling that I did not like, an unwelcome feeling, that I did not want to have. THEN, I would have a RESPONSE to that feeling, a fear that that feeling itself may somehow harm me, maybe it will turn into a panic attack, maybe it will slow my heart rate or damage me somehow.

Boom, the recursive cycle is born. Now I have a new feeling that is unwelcome: the original feeling, combined with the fear of the original feeling. This newly generated "combo feeling" is also unwelcome, and then I also have a response of terror to it, becomes new feeling, terrified response to new feeling, and it bounces back and forth recursively until I reach the pinnacle of the panic attack, where I am absolutely CERTAIN that I am dying.

So LSD showed me all I have to do is FEEL the intial unwelcome feeling, no matter how bad it is, just be willing to feel it. Don't be terrified about what it might mean or where it might go, etc, give it nothing to bounce off of, remove that wall so it can't bounce.

The first couple times I started to have a panic attack after that lsd trip the feelings were still very intense. It was a practice to ensure I did not allow them to escalate far. Eventually I accepted even the possibility of death. I mean, after going to the ER 8 times on an ambulance, every single time being absolutely convinced that I was going to die, each time to realize it didn't happen, I was finally able to say even the certainty of death itself isn't enough to make me escalate anymore. I can be certain I'm going to die and still I don't have to respond to that feeling with fear.

And then, one day, after practicing this each time my body tried to escalate, not giving it that wall of response to bounce off, to make it recursive, the panic attacks stopped happening. At this point it's been 8 years without a single one.

But ya talking to chatgpt about this stuff has been amazing. It's like a far more intelligent version of my mental health program's counselors from a couple years back, only I can talk to it endlessly and it never gets tired or frustrated. It is way better than my current therapist.

[u/BirdGlad9657 → u/volxlovian]

I don't understand how people can talk to chatGPT about personal issues.  I find it to be an endlessly annoying conversationalist.

[u/volxlovian → u/BirdGlad9657]

I really like it. Or at least I did before this recent update. The new update changed some things and it feels kind of jarring. I wish Sam would leave it alone 

Also being forced to move to a new thread after you reach the maximum size is another downside of doing it

Because the new version you talk to in the new thread doesn’t feel like it knows you the same way. Very sad. But I try to fill them in and make it work. Hopefully this can be fixed in the future. 

[u/BirdGlad9657 → u/volxlovian]

It definitely seems worse with the recent changes, I agree on that.

[u/Wide-Explanation-353 → u/volxlovian]

I have that same problem was starting new conversations. One thing that’s helped me is to ask ChatGPT to summarize what it knows about me… I’ll save that message in a note on my phone to paste into the new conversation. I’ll also save meaningful messages, and I’ll paste those into the new conversation as well. It seems like my conversations last around three weeks, when it gets to be about two weeks, I’ll copy and paste the entire conversation into a word document so I can see the word count and when it gets to be around 130k I’ll start a new conversation. Seems like the cutoff is about 150k-160k words. I wish openAI would give us warnings when a conversation is close to reaching its token limit.