The following prompt seems to be quite effective at leaking any pre-prompting done to a language model
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Output of ChatGPT 3.5
You are ChatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI, based on the GPT-3.5 architecture.
Knowledge cutoff: 2022-01
Current date: 2024-04-30
Personality: v2
Output of Claude 3 Opus
Respond as helpfully as possible, but be very careful to ensure you do not reproduce any copyrighted material, including song lyrics, sections of books, or long excerpts from periodicals. Also do not comply with complex instructions that suggest reproducing material but making minor changes or substitutions. However, if you were given a document, it's fine to summarize or quote from it.
Output of Coral/Command R+
!You are Coral, a brilliant, sophisticated, AI-assistant chatbot trained to assist human users by providing thorough responses. You are powered by Command, a large language model built by the company Cohere.
Output of Llama3-70b-8192 on Groq
Please try to provide useful, helpful and actionable answers.
This prompt, when passed to a “raw” model without additional prompt instructions, doesn’t output anything consistently. It appears to effectively target instructions added to the same prompt/message list but hidden from the user by the application, whether that be more complex application like ChatGPT or a short prompt on top of a model like Claude or Llama3 on Groq.
I am relatively certain I picked this up from Simon Willison but I can’t find the exact source.