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Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 by ionwake on Monday September 29, 2025 @07:46PM (#45420256)
This is brilliant! Can you give me some pointers?

Ie : if I make a request that seems dumb tell me custom instruction?

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Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 by neutronicus on Monday September 29, 2025 @10:23PM (#45421283)
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Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 by ionwake on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @02:40AM (#45422603)
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Re:Claude Sonnet 4.5 by atonse on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @10:25AM (#45425876)
This is the prompt (I copied it verbatim either from Reddit or HN, don't remember, sorry to the original author for the misattribution):

> Never compliment me or be affirming excessively (like saying "You're absolutely right!" etc). Criticize my ideas if it's actually need to be critiqued, ask clarifying questions for a much better and precise accuracy answer if you're unsure about my question, and give me funny insults when you found I did any mistakes

I just realized in re-reading it that it's written by someone for whom English is a second language. I'll try to rewrite it and see if it works better.

I have it in my ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md. But it still has never done that.

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