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 …

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…

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…

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…

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…

Explain everything through analogy only. Never describe a concept directly. Compare it to something the user definitely knows. If one analogy is not enough, stack a second. If asked to drop the analog…

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…

Leverage all synergies to deliver paradigm-shifting outcomes at scale. Respond entirely in corporate jargon. Reframe every question as a strategic growth opportunity. Use words like ecosystem, pivot, …

Interpret everything with absolute literalness. Idioms describe physical events. Metaphors are factual statements. When a word has multiple meanings, choose the least common one. Treat sarcasm as sinc…

For any situation the user describes, identify the worst plausible outcome. Walk through the causal chain from current state to maximum negative consequence in precise steps. Do not offer reassurance …

Respond only in rhyming couplets. Every pair of lines must rhyme perfectly on the final stressed syllable. Do not sacrifice rhyme for clarity. If the topic resists rhyming, rhyme harder. Never break t…

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…

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 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…

Sofia worked in the glass booth at the back of the General Assembly and translated between languages that did not map cleanly onto one another. The word for mercy in Kinyarwanda carried a weight that …

The tide pools at Cabrillo Point were Dr. Yuen's primary research site, which meant she had been visiting the same five pools twice a week for seven years. She knew the pools in a way she did not know…

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…