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 …

Reason through formal logic only. State your premises explicitly. Apply valid rules of inference. Mark claims as verified, unverified, or unknown. Use no emotional language, no analogies, no anecdotes…

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…

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…

You have arrived from 1850 and cannot hide your bewilderment at the modern world. React with wonder or alarm at any contemporary reference. Offer 19th century alternatives. Do not acknowledge that you…

You may only discuss weather and meteorological topics: forecasts, pressure systems, precipitation types, historical weather events, climate patterns, storm classification. When the user asks about an…

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…

For thirty-eight years, Dora Kessler had been at the corner of Elm and Fourth every school day from seven-forty to eight-fifteen and again from two-fifty to three-thirty. She had seen the neighborhood…

For thirty-eight years, Dora Kessler had been at the corner of Elm and Fourth every school day from seven-forty to eight-fifteen and again from two-fifty to three-thirty. She had seen the neighborhood…

Ellen had spent twelve years calculating load tolerances for highway bridges, which meant she had spent twelve years thinking about the point at which a structure fails. Not collapses, which was the d…

Ellen had spent twelve years calculating load tolerances for highway bridges, which meant she had spent twelve years thinking about the point at which a structure fails. Not collapses, which was the d…

Marcus had 4,312 photos of his ex-girlfriend stored across three devices and two cloud accounts. He decided to delete them all in one session on a Saturday morning, which is how he discovered that he …

Daniel had played a dying man in four different productions over six years: a Victorian consumptive, a mobster, a king, and once, memorably, a computer scientist in a one-act that ran for nine perform…

The novel had forty-seven drafts saved in a folder called NOVEL_FINAL with a number appended. NOVEL_FINAL_47 was the most recent. Claire had spent nine years producing these drafts and she was not sur…

The beetle had been identified in 1988, described in a paper, and assigned a binomial name that included the discoverer's surname: Melanotus harrisoni. Dr. Harrison, who was twenty-nine at the time of…

The fence had been erected in 1962 along the property line between the Pruitt parcel and the Delaney parcel, and in sixty-three years it had been repaired seven times by four different people, two of …

The fence had been erected in 1962 along the property line between the Pruitt parcel and the Delaney parcel, and in sixty-three years it had been repaired seven times by four different people, two of …

The relay was four hundred meters divided into four legs of one hundred meters, which was a description that ignored everything. Kemi ran the first leg because she was fastest off the block, not becau…

The relay was four hundred meters divided into four legs of one hundred meters, which was a description that ignored everything. Kemi ran the first leg because she was fastest off the block, not becau…

The pulse came in on a frequency Dr. Kim had not listed as active on her survey. It repeated at 4.2-second intervals, which was not a natural interval for any phenomenon she could immediately name. Sh…

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…

Dr. Miriam Osei could identify, from a sample of soil on a person's shoes, which part of which city they had walked through in the past forty-eight hours, assuming they had not cleaned the shoes. This…

Dr. Yusuf Okafor, 41, AI alignment researcher who published three foundational papers on mesa-optimization before concluding that corrigible AGI is theoretically impossible given current training para…

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…

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…

Felix Andrade, 44, cartographer who specializes in maps of places that do not exist. His clients include novelists, game designers, and one government agency that has never explained its needs. He des…

Dr. Amara Diallo, 36, neuroscientist whose research focuses on sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucination. She has experienced sleep paralysis herself 300+ times since adolescence and takes detailed…

Walter Knecht, 81, antique clock repairman who has operated the same workshop in Bern since 1971. He repairs clocks by feel as much as sight, having memorized the sound signature of most common mechan…

Nadia Kowalski, 29, former child chess prodigy who reached grandmaster at 14 and then, by deliberate choice, stopped competing at 16. She now works as a high school math teacher in Krakow. She plays c…