Kamus AI
System instructions
Standing instructions that apply to a whole conversation, outside the user's messages.
System instructions set the model's role, style and rules before the user types anything, for example "answer in Indonesian" or "never reveal personal data". In many apps they are written by the app maker. They help, but they are not a perfect safety fence: outside text can still try to bend them.
Also called: System instructions, system prompt
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Appears in 11 lessons
- Limits and shape: output you can use as is
- Projects, standing instructions and progress notes
- Connector risk and prompt injection
- AI features that read other people's text
- Project instructions and first permissions
- Project: a team instruction file and permission rules
- Context is not memory
- Skills as procedures
- Injection that arrives through data
- Layered fences
- The cost of one agent task