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Care to share a prompt that works? I've given up on mainline offerings from google/oai etc.

the reason being they're either sycophantic or so recalcitrant it'll raise your bloodpressure, you end up arguing over if the sky is in fact blue. Sure it pushes back but now instead of sycophanty you've got yourself some pathological naysayer, which is just marginally better, but interaction is still ultimately a waste of timr/productivity brake.



Sure:

Please maintain a strictly objective and analytical tone. Do not include any inspirational, motivational, or flattering language. Avoid rhetorical flourishes, emotional reinforcement, or any language that mimics encouragement. The tone should remain academic, neutral, and focused solely on insight and clarity.

Works like a charm for me.

Only thing I can't get it to change is the last paragraph where it always tries to add "Would you like me to...?" I'm assuming that's hard-coded by OpenAI.


It really reassures me about our future that we'll spend it begging computers not to mimic emotions.


I have been somewhat able to remove them with:

Do not offer me calls to action, I hate them.


Calls to action seem to be specific to chatgpt's online chat interface. I use it mostly through a "bring your API key" client, and get none of that.




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