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System message is available today (and has been) in the playground under the chat setting.

This has been possible already...

Anyone know how "system" works? Is it merely a prefix on the prompt?

It is a way to interact with their chat api: https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/chat/introduction

It already exists, but according to their docs current chatGPT "does not always pay strong attention to system messages. Future models will be trained to pay stronger attention to system messages"

Just use a user prompt instead of a system prompt. It is mostly redundant tbh

Can you describe this little more? I'm not sure exactly what this means.

Instead of one large prompt there's now 'system', 'user', and 'assistant' prompts which are meant to be given specific instructions each. So you could tell the system prompt that it's a librarian and ask the message prompt what date a book was published.

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