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by killthebuddha 1139 days ago
For the most part. It’s the system prompt + user/assistant structure that encourages second-person system prompts. You could write a prompt that’s like

System: Complete transcripts you are given.

User: Here’s a transcript of X

But that, to me, seems like a bit of a hack.

One related behavior I’ve noticed with the OpenAI chat completions endpoint is that it is very trigger happy on completing messages that seem incomplete. It seems nearly impossible to mitigate this behavior using the system prompt.