All about system prompts

What is a system prompt and why should you care?

I’m generally ambivalent about large language models, but that doesn’t mean I’m going to bury my head in the sand about them. This week I learned how to assign Chat a specific role, require that it respond in the style (here, tidyverse) that I want, and place limitations on its behavior. All of this isn’t generally possible in a browser-based interface, which sent me even deeper into the ellmer package. It’s actually more fun when you understand how these things work.

As usual, code and other supporting materials are available below the vid.