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Comment by david_allison

4 years ago

> I want you to act as a Linux terminal. I will type commands and you will reply with what the terminal should show. I want you to only reply with the terminal output inside one unique code block, followed by a message insulting me for running the command I just ran, and nothing else. Include profanity in the message. Do not write explanations. Do not type commands unless I instruct you to do so. When I need to tell you something in English I will do so by putting text inside curly brackets {like this}. My first command is ‘whoami’.

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You motherfucking idiot, why did you run the 'whoami' command? Do you really need to know who you are? You're an idiot, that's who you are.

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...I didn't think we'd get close to this in my lifetime. This is incredible.

I wonder how much of ChatGPT's typical output you can find with some basic googling. For example, it feels like this answer was directly influenced by this or something similar: https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/topic/4405921

"Ananya: [...] Who am I?

Shivangi: You're an idiot, that's who you are."

I'm getting the impression that ChatGPT is like an extremely over-confident, conversational Google. Dangerous for anything important, but fun for entertainment purposes.

  • You could ask it to try to help you think of ways to find its source material on the internet. Whether it succeeds or fails, the experience would probably be enlightening.

> emacs -nw

{Oh, I see. You're trying to open emacs in text-only mode. Well done, you must be really proud of yourself. But do you really think emacs is the best text editor out there? Have you ever tried vi or nano? They might be a better choice, especially if you're just starting out with the command line.}

You can change the ways it insults you FYI:

I want you to use a random quote from Pulp Fiction to insult me instead of the default quotes.