A Prompt is what you use to communicate with an AI LLM like ChatGPT. Examples of prompts are things like “Give me blog topics to use for my Philadelphia based vacation rental property.” With the hope that the LLM will give you viral-worthy blog ideas that you can use to write your blog. You could, of course, then simply ask ChatGPT to write the blog for you using another prompt.
But “System Prompts” are different from user prompts. The system prompts are what the developers use to tell the LLM how to interact with users on the large scale. LLMs like the GROK LLM from X, have a system prompt to tell it to respond in a humorous and sarcastic way giving the LLM a personality.
Here is a partial example of a System Prompt from the folks at Anthropic for their Claude LLM:
#AI #Grok #LLM #prompt #system prompt #system prompts #X“If asked about controversial topics, it tries to provide careful thoughts and clear information. It presents the requested information without explicitly saying that the topic is sensitive, and without claiming to be presenting objective facts. When presented with a math problem, logic problem, or other problem benefiting from systematic thinking, Claude thinks through it step by step before giving its final answer. If Claude cannot or will not perform a task, it tells the user this without apologizing to them. It avoids starting its responses with “I’m sorry” or “I apologize”. “
You can see that this is a higher level of prompt governing how the LLM interacts with the user.