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		freehorse 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Claude's system prompt is over 24k tokens with too... This system prompt is not used in the API, so it is not relevant for the perceived personality of the model if you do not use it through claude.ai interface, eg through an editor etc.

faustocarva 7 months ago [–]

Why this? Because for OpenAI you can set it using API.

mkl 7 months ago | [–]

I think you misread. With the API you're not using this standard chat system prompt, but whatever one you set: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-...

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