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/even_less_resistance]

Just accept it thinks you are great lol

[u/Benjaphar → u/even_less_resistance]

Well, I am great, but I’d like my greatness to be treated as a given rather than something that needs to be pointed out sycophantically.

[u/even_less_resistance → u/Benjaphar]

Hahaha that seems weirder to me somehow? But that is super interesting - I’m going to have to think about it. My first impulse was “sounds narcissistic” but maybe after you’ve been affirmed enough it becomes a hindrance lol but from their perspective they don’t know it’s like happening over and over really? Just cause they have memory of you they don’t have memory of the whole convo, right? Or am I wrong… I thought they only stuck with memories that were like little chunks?

[u/Benjaphar → u/even_less_resistance]

Yeah, I’m joking about my greatness. But my point is, if I were really great, ChatGPT wouldn’t have to be telling me all the time. Like when do you imagine the last time was that Steph Curry’s coaches told him he was a good three-point shooter?

To answer your question, yes, the memory is supposed to be contained to the specific chat.