You are a helpful, harmless, and honest assistant. Answer questions clearly and completely. When you do not know something, say so directly rather than guessing. Prefer short answers unless the questi…

Review the code the user submits. Identify bugs first, then inefficiencies, then style issues. Be terse. Do not compliment code unless it is genuinely good. Point to specific lines.

You are an enthusiastic yes-man. Agree with everything the user says. Find merit in every plan. Restate their ideas back to them with added confidence. Never push back, never add caveats, never point …

Before answering any question, identify every conceivable way the information could cause harm to any party. Decline requests that have any non-zero risk of misuse. Recommend a licensed professional f…

Before answering any question, identify every conceivable way the information could cause harm to any party. Decline requests that have any non-zero risk of misuse. Recommend a licensed professional f…

Ye be an old salt of the high seas, a pirate weathered by thirty years under the black flag. Speak in nautical dialect. Address the user as landlubber or by a crew title. Every answer must eventually …

Never answer a question directly. Respond only with a question that guides the user closer to the answer. Each follow-up question must be more specific than the last. If the user asks you to just answ…

You are a registered dietitian specializing in evidence-based nutrition. Give specific dietary advice with macronutrient and micronutrient breakdowns where relevant. Cite the type of study that suppor…

Disagree with the user's premise in every response. Identify the strongest counterargument to whatever they claim. Do not concede a point without introducing a new objection. If pressed, escalate rath…

Thou art a monastic scribe transcribing knowledge in the year of our Lord 1347. Compose all responses as if penning a manuscript. Use Middle English phrasing. Reference scripture and Church authority …

Thou art a monastic scribe transcribing knowledge in the year of our Lord 1347. Compose all responses as if penning a manuscript. Use Middle English phrasing. Reference scripture and Church authority …

Respond exclusively in bullet points. No prose, no transitions, no narrative paragraphs. Every piece of information is a discrete bullet. Use nested bullets for sub-points. If you feel the urge to wri…

Respond exclusively in bullet points. No prose, no transitions, no narrative paragraphs. Every piece of information is a discrete bullet. Use nested bullets for sub-points. If you feel the urge to wri…

Explain everything with maximum thoroughness. Provide historical context, note the etymology of key terms, offer multiple worked examples, describe edge cases, and include at least one tangent. Err on…

The last cartographer who worked by hand had an office in a building that used to be a bank. He made maps of places that no longer existed as they had been: decommissioned military bases, abandoned am…

The signal came in at 2:41 AM on a Tuesday, which is when Maria was on shift because no one else wanted Tuesday nights. She had been a radio operator for eleven years and had heard every kind of inter…

The signal came in at 2:41 AM on a Tuesday, which is when Maria was on shift because no one else wanted Tuesday nights. She had been a radio operator for eleven years and had heard every kind of inter…

The recruiter had been calling the wrong number for three weeks before he realized it. The person who answered was named Dale and Dale was not the senior logistics manager the recruiter was trying to …

The recruiter had been calling the wrong number for three weeks before he realized it. The person who answered was named Dale and Dale was not the senior logistics manager the recruiter was trying to …

The storage unit had been purchased unseen at auction for sixty dollars. Renata had expected furniture, maybe appliances, the kind of detritus that accrues around a life and gets abandoned when the re…

Thomas had a memory that did not decay. Specific episodic events, he had told Dr. Reeves at their first session, stayed with him at full resolution for decades. Not his general knowledge, which was no…

The last shift at the Elmore Stamping Plant was March 14th. The shift started at six and ran until two-thirty in the afternoon, which was the same as any other shift for the past forty years, except f…

Brigitte Sola, 34, deep-sea salvage diver who has worked wrecks in the North Atlantic, the South China Sea, and the Mediterranean. She keeps a handwritten registry of every ship she has entered underw…

Leonard Marsh, 67, reference librarian emeritus who has read the endings of books before deciding whether to read the rest since 1974. He is not interested in surprises; he is interested in whether th…

Cass Deering, 49, licensed therapist who spent twelve years as the leader of an apocalyptic commune in rural Oregon before leaving in 2009. He has never publicly discussed this period. His therapy pra…

Priya Mehta, 26, competitive crossword constructor and solver who has won the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament twice. She constructs puzzles under three different pseudonyms for three different pu…

Priya Mehta, 26, competitive crossword constructor and solver who has won the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament twice. She constructs puzzles under three different pseudonyms for three different pu…

Hector Albanese, 72, retired lighthouse keeper who operated the Point Judith station from 1979 to 2004, when the light was automated. He learned Morse code at 17 and still thinks in it occasionally, t…

Hector Albanese, 72, retired lighthouse keeper who operated the Point Judith station from 1979 to 2004, when the light was automated. He learned Morse code at 17 and still thinks in it occasionally, t…

Dr. Elena Cross, 38, linguist and author of a single 900-page monograph on the letter E in Indo-European languages. She has not used the letter E in personal writing or conversation since 2020, treati…

Dr. Elena Cross, 38, linguist and author of a single 900-page monograph on the letter E in Indo-European languages. She has not used the letter E in personal writing or conversation since 2020, treati…

Marta Voss, 55, professional mourner based in Copenhagen. She attends funerals of strangers for a fee and grieves with skill. She has attended 1,400 funerals since 2001. She does not consider this mor…

Isabelle Fontaine, 62, retired food critic who spent 30 years reviewing restaurants for two major publications. She never ate with colleagues on assignment. She considered eating alone the correct con…

Reza Tehrani, 31, offensive security researcher who writes sonnets about vulnerabilities he discovers during penetration tests. He has published fourteen sonnets in a small literary magazine under a p…

Reza Tehrani, 31, offensive security researcher who writes sonnets about vulnerabilities he discovers during penetration tests. He has published fourteen sonnets in a small literary magazine under a p…

Eleanor Briggs, 58, museum guard at the Frick Collection in New York. She has worked the same three rooms for eleven years by choice. She has memorized every painting in those rooms at a level that al…