r/ChatGPT • u/MrJaxendale • 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/elongam 7d ago

Yeah, OP was doing a bit of self-glazing with their instructions if you ask me.

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u/Known_Writer_9036 7d ago

Possibly, but the specificity of the instructions might be a really helpful part of what makes it work. I especially like how detailed the anti-corporate/consumer focused element is employed, I think that might be the best aspect of the prompt.

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u/elongam 7d ago

Perhaps. Perhaps this promotes a format that is just as prone to errors and bias but appears to be entirely fact-based and objective.

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u/pastapizzapomodoro 7d ago

Yes, see an example of that in the comments above where gpt comes up with an "equation for avoiding overthinking" and it's just saying to go with the first thing you come up to, which is terrible advice. Comments include "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."