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Oct 12, 2026 17 min

System Prompts: Programming the AI's Personality, Rules, and Style

from The Prompt Shop

Ellis and Dev dive into system prompts — the hidden instructions that program an AI's personality, rules, and style before the user ever types a word. Live walkthrough: Dev builds a customer-support chatbot's system prompt from scratch, it breaks in a specific way, and Ellis fixes it. Plus the common mistakes that make system prompts fail and how to test them before a client ever sees them. For education and entertainment only — not financial, legal, or professional advice. We make no claims or guarantees about income; individual results vary widely.

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