Ask HN: What's Your System Prompt?

by keepamovinon 2/26/2026, 1:37 PMwith 1 comments

Your default, your go-to, your thing-you-remind-yourself-of as you go through life.

While seeing this Alan Watts video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z55F_YVSaZ8), I was reminded an idea I had when I saw the Claude system prompt that leaked the other day and how people were relating the different iterations of it to changes in Claude's personality. The idea was that probably many of us run something analogous ourselves.

So, what's your system prompt?

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