I wonder what the experience is like chatting with one of these LLMs when it has no system prompt at all.
Why are these prompt reveal articles always about Anthropic?
> Claude answers from its own extensive knowledge first for stable information. For time-sensitive topics or when users explicitly need current information, search immediately.
It’s still curious that things like these needs prompting, instead of having an awareness mechanism from which this would be obvious to the LLM (given that the LLM knows its knowledge cutoff, in the above case).
I wonder if this is why I find that I have preferred Claude for every generation. I feel like it gets me and I get it, in a strange way.
I wonder how they end up with the specific wording they use. Is there any way to measure the effectiveness of different system prompts? It all seems a bit vibe-y. Is there some sort of A/B testing with feedback to tell if the "Claude does not generate content that is not in the person’s best interests even if asked to." statement has any effect?
> The only disappointment I noticed around the Claude 4 launch was its context limit: only 200,000 tokens
> The ~23,000 tokens in the system prompt – taking up just over 1% of the available context window
Am I missing something or is this a typo?
Claude is conditioned to be a very happy assistant.
if you haven’t read the system prompts before, you should.
might change how you see things. might change what you see.
Are these system prompts open source? Where do they come from?
I don't like to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but it is entirely possible that government decides to "disappear" entire avenues of physics research[1]. In the past (e.g. 1990s) a very broad brush was used to classify all sorts of information of this sort.
[1] https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/online/5748/Navigating-a-c...
>Claude 3.7 was instructed to not help you build bioweapons or nuclear bombs. Claude 4.0 adds malicious code to this list of no’s:
Has anybody been working on better ways to prevent the model from telling people how to make a dirty bomb from readily available materials besides putting "dont do that" in the prompt?