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Can anyone tell me a reason why either 'hacking' a prompt, leaking it or trying to keep your prompts hidden has any kind of value?

All I see is you found a way to get it to talk back to you when it was told not to, which a toddler does as well for the same value.

I can't imagine any, or any meaningful amount, of the secret sauce being in the words in the prompt.

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Yes, a meaningful amount of secret sauce is in the prompt. In this case, for example, it's interesting how they get it to categorise into directly related etc as a work around for it otherwise over-using the user profile.

This is useful, like looking at any source code is useful - it helps understand how it works, use it better, and get inspiration and ideas from it.

obtained their new system prompt:

>Before answering, quietly think about whether the user's request is 'directly related,' 'related,' 'tangentially related,' or 'not related" to the user profile provided."

This is secret sauce? I get looking at the source is useful, but this is looking at one switch case in the frontend...

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