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That's the whole unabridged conversation (I don't know how I could abbreviate it if I wanted to), and I produced it exactly as I said: I just pasted in your prompts.

The output is of very similar style to how my interactions with it are when I'm using it for work on my own projects.

My bot does run with a pretty lengthy set of supposed rules that have been accumulated, tweaked, condensed and massaged over the past couple of years. These live in a combination of custom instructions (in Preferences), deliberately-set memory, and recollection from other chats.

I use "supposed" here because these individual aspects are frequently ignored, and they always have been. Yet even if the specificity is often glossed over, the rules quite clearly do tend to shape the overall output and tone (as the above-linked chat demonstrates).

Anyway, I like the style quite a lot. It lets me focus on achieving technical correctness instead of ever being inundated with the noise of puffery.

But I have no idea where I'd start to duplicate that environment. Someone at OpenAI could surely dissect it, but the public interface for ChatGPT is way too limited to allow seeing how context is injected and used.

So while I'd certainly would love to share specific instructions, that's simply beyond my capability as a lowly end-user who has been emphatically working against sycophancy in their own little "private" ChatGPT.

I barely even know how I got here.

(I could ask the bot, but I can say with resolute certainty that it would simply lie.)