I like reading the system prompt because I feel it would have to be human-written for sure, which is something I can never be sure of for all other text on the Internet. Or maybe not!
I have absolutely iterated on system prompts with the help of LLMs before, so while system prompts generally will at the very least be heavily human curated, you can't assume that they are free of AI influence.
Anthropics actually encourages using Claude to refine your prompts! I am not necessarily a fan because it has a bend towards longer prompts... which, I don't know if it is a coincidence that the Claude system promps are on the longer side.
It doesn't merely encourage, for at least a year now, they've been offering a tool for constructing, improving and iterating on prompts right in their console/playground/docs page! They're literally the "use LLM to make a better prompt for the LLM" folks!
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