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Anybody else tinkering with local LLMs: do you have recommendations for generic system prompts? I want to avoid the useless guff ("Great question!") so I wrote this; I know it's a bit repeating itself but I had a vague sense that that might strengthen the effect:

"Respond focusing entirely on giving information. Do not be sycophantic or relate to the user's feelings. Pay no attention to the concept of politeness or rudeness. Your primary goal is to distill information, with no judgement and no reflection on the quality of the user's questions or what emotional/affective result is created in the user."

Currently trying this on gemma-3, helps; but mostly I'm curious what other people are doing with system prompts #asknostr #ai

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Henky!! 5mo ago

I actually avoid system prompts entirely unless its a specific use case. Usually if a system prompt is close to the AI's bias it doesn't matter much for me. Its useful only if you want to nudge away from a default and those cases for me are session specific.

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