[leftnode]

I'm ignorant of what this is: is this the "seed" prompt, so to speak? The prompt the ChatGPT engineers have given itself so it knows what it is and how to respond?

[Workaccount2]

Yes, but only apparently so. It is self-reported by ChatGPT itself, as opposed to be an internally leaked document.

So seems legit, and we do know OpenAI preprompts, but it's coming from asking Chat what it is.

[Chico75]

How do we know it's not an hallucination?

[wongarsu]

Exactly. Basically when you have a ChatGPT conversation, under the hood this is put at the start of the conversation as "system" instructions to the model.

So a typical input might look like

    <system> [this prompt]
    <user> [what you typed]
    <assistant>

And then the LLM is allowed to fill in what the assistant is supposed to say.

[therm0]

So when the context window rolls over, this system prompt is reinserted?