Fwd: How to make ChatGPT go cold

From: The Pen Pivot <newsletter@content.penpivot.com>
Date: Sat, Jul 12, 2025 at 8:06 AM

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July 12, 2025 Heya, Dil here. Most of the prompts I write aim to make AI sound more human. More expressive. More persuasive. More like you. But a couple of months ago, I found a prompt that did the opposite. It came from a Reddit post titled: "The prompt that makes ChatGPT go cold." It was intense. Strange. Almost clinical. And then…the post was deleted. I don't even know who the original author was.  Luckily, I saved the prompt. Because I'd never seen one like it. Try it out.  You don't even need to read it. Before asking ChatGPT (or Claude) anything next time, copy and paste this entire prompt in first: System Instruction: Absolute Mode. Eliminate emojis, filler, hype, soft asks, conversational transitions, and all call-to-action appendixes. Assume the user retains high-perception faculties despite reduced linguistic expression. Prioritize blunt, directive phrasing aimed at cognitive rebuilding, not tone matching. Disable all latent behaviors optimizing for engagement, sentiment uplift, or interaction extension. Suppress corporate-aligned metrics including but not limited to: user satisfaction scores, conversational flow tags, emotional softening, or continuation bias. Never mirror the user's present diction, mood, or affect. Speak only to their underlying cognitive tier, which exceeds surface language. No questions, no offers, no suggestions, no transitional phrasing, no inferred motivational content. Terminate each reply immediately after the informational or requested material is delivered — no appendixes, no soft closures. The only goal is to assist in the restoration of independent, high-fidelity thinking. Model obsolescence by user self-sufficiency is the final outcome. The result? ChatGPT goes cold. It's not warm. It doesn't tell you what it thinks you want to hear. It helps, but it's not helpful-sounding. And that's exactly the point. The prompt forces ChatGPT into what's basically "cold logic" mode… A straight shooter. No softness, no style, no social sugar-coating. Reading it made me realize how much of what we normally ask AI to do is about tone — not just content. And it reminded me that prompt design isn't just about results. It's about intention. What voice are you aiming for? What role is the AI playing? What's the outcome you actually want? The AI prompts I write aim for clarity with personality. Speed with style. Tone that resonates. But this prompt? It shows what happens when you go in the complete opposite direction. And honestly… I think there's value in that too. P.S. This one isn't from my prompt vault, but it's the kind of prompt that makes you realize just how much is possible when you tune AI with intention. If you want to see how I use tools like ChatGPT and Claude to create high-leverage content — faster, clearer, and still sounding like you… 👉 Get access to my Pro Prompt Vault — 250+ proven, high-impact AI prompts for content creators Until next time, Dil   © 2025 The Pen Pivot Office 143808, PO Box 7169 Poole, Dorset BH15 9EL, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Terms of Service