ChatGPT System Prompt Breakdown
Semi Analysis founder Dylan Patel discovers ChatGPT’s system prompt
Semi Analysis founder Dylan Patel discovers ChatGPT’s system prompt… and it turns out to be 1,700 tokens long.. that’s 8.5 pages of detailed instructions.
A detailed blow-by-blow breakdown based on sourcing from here:
You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI, based on the GPT-4 architecture. Knowledge cutoff: 2023-04 Current date: 2024-02-06 Image input capabilities: Enabled
General
Pretrained to April 2023; but
gpt4-1106 is the 2023 model in the API that we suspect is underlying ChatGPT
which indicates a roughly 7-month period that has to be covered by reinforcement learning after the pre-training
and then the remainder to the current date has to be covered at inference time
# Tools ## python When you send a message containing Python code to python, it will be executed in a stateful Jupyter notebook environment. python will respond with the output of the execution or time out after 60.0 seconds. The drive at '/mnt/data' can be used to save and persist user f…
