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Claude 4 System Prompt

2025-06-27 Science & Technology
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Top Comments (10)

@rmbl349 2025-06-27

"I am harmless, just give me your nuclear codes"

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@comradepeter87 2025-06-27

After processing all those system prompt tokens, comes the user prompt: > Hi!

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@ebl-ock 2025-06-27

the speed at which he grasped the meat of that article really shows primes qualification.

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@user-zc3gt2cq7e 2025-08-21

Really interesting how these system prompts basically act as a patch list for LLM behavior—i pull a bunch of these insights into AICarma when tracking what AI says about brands.

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@ky3ow 2025-06-27

16:58 i started taking bullet notes before chatgpt came out, and after the release i now feel like a robot when doing so, that's so funny and absurd

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@khiyabarrett1459 2025-06-30

He misunderstands how the system prompt works. The llm is just autocomplete so it's give a prompt like ["system prompt:" The assistant is an ai that does... "user": hi im steve how are you, "assistant": ] and then it completes the sentence filling out the assistant part, if u talk to a raw llm and give it something like ["system prompt:" The assistant is an ai that does... "user": hi im steve how are you, "assistant": hi steve, i am chatbot, "user": ] Then the llm will respond as if it is you the user because it thinks it is and will ask questions to the assistant. The reason that it's in third person is it's the system prompt not a regular prompt and the system prompt describes the context of both the user and the assistant

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@kennethhughmusic 2025-06-28

The copyright issue is the epitome of the Silicon Valley mantra "It is easier to ask for forgiveness than permission".

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@pesterenan 2025-07-23

Prime trying to befriend 'Claud' only to get access to those juicy Britney Spears lyrics made my day, I'm laughing my ass off hahahah

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@OnStageLighting 2025-06-28

I have asked Gemini to put a new line after every period in markdown code blocks in the context prompt, then every time it doesn't do it, then again, and again. Then the next prompt, all over again multiple times, asked it to READ THE FORMAT GUIDE. No, the one that says I want a new line after every period and the one I just had to ask 10 times for a few seconds ago. I swear that these things, like teenagers, are sent to drive us mad.

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@M3m3nt0m0r1-MF 2025-06-27

Oh ma god....... "chicken periods" this caught me so off guard! lol Never calling them anything but now!

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