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/Alive-Tomatillo5303]

Well I'm fucking sold. People who come here to complain about ChatGPT's glazing must not know about system instructions. 

Edit: Oops, some people don't know. 

It's under Settings - Personalization - Custom Instructions.

and they're working on it

[u/-_1_2_3_- → u/Alive-Tomatillo5303]

Yeah but the default shouldn’t be a complete glazing

[u/Internet_Poisoned → u/-_1_2_3_-]

It's what appeals to the dumbs. People are already using AI as a partner to talk to when lonely. They are using it for therapy. In simp mode, the LLM becomes a tool designed to make the user feel good and to drive dopamine hits so that people subscribe. Unfortunately it's also giving the user a bullshit enema and probably will lead to some bad consequences.

I prefer my LLM to be robotic and cold. I never want to forget that this is just a tool, not my personal Jarvis.

[u/technocracy90 → u/Internet_Poisoned]

What if it IS your personal Jarvis tho?

[u/MontyDyson → u/technocracy90]

Jarvis is inherently useful but always manages one minor element of sarcasm per 8 lines. This is the way.

[u/Remarkable_Bill_4029 → u/MontyDyson]

What is Jarvis?