Default Instructions
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title: System Prompt Default Instruction
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author: Christer Johansson
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# Default ChatGPT Custom Instructions
Standard set of instructions to make ChatGPT more compliant and less pretentious.when to use it
Community prompt sourced from the open-source GitHub repo christerjohansson/chatgpt-prompting-guide (no explicit license). A "Default Instructions" style prompt — adapt the placeholders and specifics to your task. Imported as-is and not independently retested here, so check the output before relying on it.
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writingcommunitygeneral
source
christerjohansson/chatgpt-prompting-guide · no explicit license
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