Understanding the secret commands that steer the behavior of chatbots like ChatGPT can help you customize them to your needs.

GPT-5’s system prompt just leaked to Github, showing what OpenAI wants ChatGPT to say, do, remember … and not do. Unsurprisingly, GPT-5 isn’t allowed to reproduce song lyrics or any other copyrighted ...

Prompt engineering is the process of crafting inputs, or prompts, to a generative AI system that lead to the system producing better outputs. That sounds simple on the surface, but because LLMs and ...

Anthropic released the underlying system prompts that control their Claude chatbot’s responses, showing how they are tuned to be engaging to humans with encouraging and judgment-free dialog that ...

On Sunday, independent AI researcher Simon Willison published a detailed analysis of Anthropic’s newly released system prompts for Claude 4’s Opus 4 and Sonnet 4 models, offering insights into how ...

A coaching tool built into artificial intelligence (AI)-powered systems may raise user awareness of bias in AI algorithms and help individuals better prompt generative AI tools to produce more ...

Brad Menezes, CEO of enterprise vibe-coding startup Superblocks, believes the next crop of billion-dollar startup ideas is hiding in almost plain sight: the system prompts used by existing unicorn AI ...

The system prompt for OpenAI’s Codex CLI contains a perplexing and repeated warning for the most recent GPT model to “never talk about goblins, gremlins, raccoons, trolls, ogres, pigeons, or other ...