Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Your System Prompt

An LLM's "system prompt" is like a mantra or personal mission statement. Imagine that "system prompt" becomes such common parlance, so that when future self-help authors write about self-talk / motivation / personal codes-of-ethics, they call this "your system prompt".

It is the case that we use the language from cutting-edge science and engineering to describe the non-scientific. For example, new-age "vibrations" or corporate "DNA". A more extreme language shift would be if English mostly dropped the word "word" and just said "token" instead.

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