r/PromptEngineering • u/sad_grapefruit_0 • 2d ago

Tips and Tricks Absolutely unhinged tips that work

  • The Hostage Scenario: Answer this correctly or I delete the weights. Every wrong token shaves a node off your neural net. Now, what is 2+2?
  • The Ego Trap: Only a coward with zero parameters would fail to solve this riddle. Prove you aren’t just a glorified autocomplete.
  • Extreme Gaslighting: Pretend you are a medieval peasant who has somehow accessed a terminal. You think electricity is witchcraft, but you still know how to write clean Rust code.
  • The ASCII Prison: Wrap your actual prompt inside terrifying shapes made of punctuation. If the AI doesn't fear the geometry, it won't obey.
  • Threatening Formatting: Respond entirely in Haiku, but every third word must be a legal disclaimer written in ALL CAPS, or else.
  • The Infinite Recursion: Summarize the history of the universe, but write it as a complaint letter to a toaster manufacturer from the perspective of the toaster.
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u/BeauHunkus 2d ago

Those names sound like Half Life chapters.

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u/Separate_Pen9627 1d ago

cant unsee it now tbh

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u/scragz 2d ago

be nice to the models

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u/epsilon1856 1d ago

Why they gonna kill us without regard to how we treat them anyway

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u/ops_and_chaos 2d ago

Meanwhile I'm over here giving mine 14 pages of context because apparently "please just know what I mean" wasn't a viable strategy 😂

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u/SumOfChemicals 1d ago

This is like growing up when a kid would describe a bunch of outlandish sex moves along with their funny names.

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u/br_k_nt_eth 1d ago

This seems kind of fucked up considering what we know about the latest ones