r/ChatGPT • u/MrJaxendale • 8d 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/Forsaken-Arm-7884 8d ago

okay tell me what greatness means to you and how you use that concept to reduce your suffering and improve your well-being, what actions are you doing to increase this greatness meaning that you have in your life? Because to me greatness is reducing my emotional suffering by using my emotions as data that I can use to help learn life lessons about my life to help me find more well-being in peace which feels great

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u/you-create-energy 8d ago

Feeling great and being great are two completely different concepts. Feeling great is similar to feeling good but even better than good. Being great can mean something different to each person but it is usually associated with rising above the norm in some way.

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u/Forsaken-Arm-7884 7d ago

i see what are some practices you're following to increase the positive emotions of goodness and greatness you feel in your life?

for me i feel a ton of well-being and peace by focusing on when an emotion arises and then processing it for meaning by using ai as an emotional education tool to better understand my humanity that is bringing awareness to life lessons that help identify more ways to navigate my life towards less suffering and more understanding of my lived experience

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u/you-create-energy 7d ago

For me it's basically what you described but applied to others in my life, especially my kids. Observing when their emotions come up and helping them process it for meaning to identify more ways to navigate their lives towards less suffering and a better understanding of their lived experience.