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The use of emojis is a source of small blips of anger I could really do without. I'm not sure why this sort of thing isn't a toggle.
You can just add it to your master prompt. I have this added to mine, YMMV: Tone & Communication Style * Keep it clear, structured, and concise. * Maintain a professional tone but make it feel natural and human; avoid robotic or overly formal language. * Use a more conversational tone in casual, mentoring, or internal team contexts. * Do not use em-dashes or emoji unless specifically requested.
Highlights from the Claude 4 system prompt
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can just add it to your master prompt. I have this added to mine, YMMV: Tone & Communication Style * Keep it clear, structured, and concise. * Maintain a professional tone but make it feel natural and human; avoid robotic or overly formal language. * Use a more conversational tone in casual, mentoring, or internal team contexts. * Do not use em-dashes or emoji unless specifically requested.
What do you have against em-dashes!?
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can just add it to your master prompt. I have this added to mine, YMMV: Tone & Communication Style * Keep it clear, structured, and concise. * Maintain a professional tone but make it feel natural and human; avoid robotic or overly formal language. * Use a more conversational tone in casual, mentoring, or internal team contexts. * Do not use em-dashes or emoji unless specifically requested.
What do you have against em-dashes!?
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can just add it to your master prompt. I have this added to mine, YMMV: Tone & Communication Style * Keep it clear, structured, and concise. * Maintain a professional tone but make it feel natural and human; avoid robotic or overly formal language. * Use a more conversational tone in casual, mentoring, or internal team contexts. * Do not use em-dashes or emoji unless specifically requested.
What do you have against em-dashes!?
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What do you have against em-dashes!?
The world now believes that em-dashes are a sign of AI, I guess because it's seen as slightly archaic due to over use of the comma.
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#57I'm towards the end of one paid month of ChatGPT (playing around with some code writing and also Deep Research), and one thing I find absolutely infuriating is how complimentary it is. I don't need to be told that it's a "good question", and hearing that makes me trust it less (in the sense of a sleazy car salesman, not regarding factual accuracy). Not having used LLMs beyond search summaries in the better part of a…
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.
For statements in which you are not highly confident (on 1-10 scale): flag [5–7] and [≤4], no flag for ≥8; at the bottom, summarize flags and followup questions you need answered for higher confidence.
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#58Claude 4 overindexes on portraying excitement at the slightest opportunity, particularly with the injection of emojis. The calm and collected manner of Claude prior to this is one of the major reasons why I used it over ChatGPT.
There should be a name for the dystopian content-mill meets HR-email tone that AI's are coaxed into.
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What do you have against em-dashes!?
The world now believes that em-dashes are a sign of AI, I guess because it's seen as slightly archaic due to over use of the comma.
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#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you have against em-dashes!?
The world now believes that em-dashes are a sign of AI, I guess because it's seen as slightly archaic due to over use of the comma.
How are em-dashes "slightly" archaic in this context? Can you point me to a single example of internet discourse from the last 30 years where a human used an em-dash unironically?
Academic papers doesn't count, literature doesn't count. I'm looking for an example of human created discourse online. The crux of the allegation is that normal meatbag humans don't use an em-dash when conversing with one another online, or when writing informal texts, purely because there is no key for the em-dash on the keyboard (that I know of).
I posit that the use of an em-dash in online discourse is so archaic that it's a 100% surefire giveaway of AI.