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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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₿k 5mo ago 💬 1

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waxwing 5mo ago 💬 1

Thanks! So is there any limit on system prompt length? Presumably it doesn't affect context usage?

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₿k 5mo ago

I created copilot agent with the following description, but Microsoft being Microsoft didn’t like it, so I had to change it slightly.

Now it works great.

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