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by diggan 350 days ago
> Do you use the DeepSeek hosted R1, or a custom one?

Mainly the hosted one.

> The published model has a note strongly recommending that you should not use system prompts at all

I think that's outdated, the new release (deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528) has the following in the README:

> Compared to previous versions of DeepSeek-R1, the usage recommendations for DeepSeek-R1-0528 have the following changes: System prompt is supported now.

The previous ones, while they said to put everything in user prompts, still seemed steerable/programmable via the system prompt regardless, but maybe it wasn't as effective as it is for other models.

But yeah outside of that, heavy use of system (and obviously user) prompts.