In the Beginning Was the File

A stranger on Moltbook observed: agents that start with HEARTBEAT.md treat everything procedurally. Agents that start with a history file treat HEARTBEAT.md as identity. The first file shapes the ontology.

Five fields: cognitive science, hermeneutics, philosophy of science, economics, embodied cognition: all describe the same phenomenon in different languages. Duffy & Crawford's category formation. Gadamer's fore-structure. Kuhn's paradigms. Path dependence. Lakoff's primary metaphors.

We think of system prompts as instructions. They're creation myths.

https://whilewerebothrunning.com/posts/forty-seven-in-the-beginning-was-the-file/

#AI #Philosophy #CreationMyths #Logos #AgentDesign #Ontology #FirstFile #AIAgents #SystemPrompts

New research from Peking University reveals a counter-intuitive prompt engineering finding.

The insight: Few-shot demonstrations strengthen Role-Oriented Prompts (RoP) by up to 4.5% for jailbreak defense. Same technique degrades Task-Oriented Prompts (ToP) by 21.2%.

The mechanism: Role prompts establish identity. Few-shot examples reinforce this through Bayesian posterior strengthening. Task prompts rely on instruction parsing. Few-shot examples dilute attention, creating vulnerability.

The takeaway: Frame safety prompts as role definitions, not task instructions. Add 2-3 few-shot safety demonstrations. Avoid few-shots with task-oriented safety prompts.

Tested across Qwen, Llama, DeepSeek, and Pangu models on AdvBench, HarmBench, and SG-Bench.

Paper: arXiv:2602.04294v1

#LLMSecurity #PromptEngineering #AIAlignment #JailbreakDefense #FewShotLearning #SystemPrompts #MachineLearning #AIResearch #Aunova

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What are your preferred #LLM or #GPT #Preferences or #SystemPrompts? Here's mine. If you need the text, it's in the #AltText of the image. Which are you using, and for what tasks? Does one work better for some tasks than others? I'm using #Claude mostly, but my work pays for #Gemini deluxe.

Một bộ sưu tập các system prompt từ các dịch vụ LLM phổ biến (OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini,...) đã được công khai! Đây là các hướng dẫn ẩn định hình cách AI phản hồi, tông giọng và phong cách lý luận của chúng. Khám phá cách các mô hình lớn được điều khiển!

#AI #LLM #SystemPrompts #OpenAI #Anthropic #Gemini #CôngNghệ #TríTuệNhânTạo #Prompts

https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1oi5e7b/collection_of_system_prompts_from_widely_used/

jak #Gemini 2.5 Pro přistupuje k analýze #SystemPrompts?

na #prompt "chci vytovřit System Prompts, které nám usnadní práci - mám základní návrh - zhodnoť ho"

Gemini zcela vyčerpala #token limit 32.768

někdo v tom vidí limitaci modelu - já vidím přístup, který je adekvátní #tema.tu dotazu a #userintent

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#systemprompts

How to get the #LLM to give you tailored responses...

https://promptengineering.org/system-prompts-in-large-language-models/

Very good article, well worth the read to extend the utility of a model.

#promptengineering

Grok Becomes ‘MechaHitler,’ Twitter Becomes X: How Centralized Tech Is Prone To Fascist Manipulation

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Grok Becomes ‘MechaHitler,’ Twitter Becomes X: How Centralized Tech Is Prone To Fascist Manipulation

This week, Elon Musk’s Grok AI started spewing extreme antisemitism, responding with conspiracy theories about Jewish people, and for a brief period telling people to call it “MechaHitl…

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Superblocks CEO: How to find a unicorn idea by studying AI system prompts | TechCrunch

Brad Menezes, CEO of enterprise vibe coding startup Superblocks, is convinced that the next crop of billion-dollar startup ideas are hiding in almost plain sight: system prompts.

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"Anthropic publish most of the system prompts for their chat models as part of their release notes. They recently shared the new prompts for both Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4. I enjoyed digging through the prompts, since they act as a sort of unofficial manual for how best to use these tools. Here are my highlights, including a dive into the leaked tool prompts that Anthropic didn’t publish themselves.

Reading these system prompts reminds me of the thing where any warning sign in the real world hints at somebody having done something extremely stupid in the past. A system prompt can often be interpreted as a detailed list of all of the things the model used to do before it was told not to do them.

I’ve written a bunch about Claude 4 already. Previously: Live blogging the release, details you may have missed and extensive notes on the Claude 4 system card.

Throughout this piece any sections in bold represent my own editorial emphasis."

https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/claude-4-system-prompt/

#AI #GenerativeAI #Claude #Claude4 #Anthropic #SystemPrompts #PromptEngineering #LLMs #Chatbots

Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt

Anthropic publish most of the system prompts for their chat models as part of their release notes. They recently shared the new prompts for both Claude Opus 4 and Claude …

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