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Is there a seed prompt? This is what ChatGPT replies:

  As a language model, I do not have a specific prompt provided by engineers when I am deployed. I am trained on a large dataset of text and can respond to a wide variety of prompts. When I am used in a specific application, the developers or users will provide a prompt for me to respond to. Therefore, i don't have a particular initial prompt.

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Riley Goodside (who is commenting elsewhere in this thread) got it to divulge the prompt: https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1598253337400717313

"Assistant is a large language model trained by OpenAI. knowledge cutoff: 2021-09 Current date: December 01 2022 Browsing: disabled"

I think I've heard that more recently they changed the "name" of the model in the prompt from Assistant to ChatGPT.

Fabulous! I stand corrected. I just tried his last prompt and it works.

Would it know that it is a language model if there was not a prompt like "Present yourself as a language model" ?

Yes. It could be part of the training.

Trained by being told ""Present yourself as a language model" thousands times before being deployed, sounds like an army.

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