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Prompts for our Grok chat assistant and grok bot on X

https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts
33•taubek•7h ago

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juujian•7h ago
"We need to feign some transparency and release something. Quick, sanitize the instructions and put something on a repo, doesn't need to be exactly what's in production."
qoez•6h ago
Similar to what they did to the X/twitter open source algorithm (which hasn't been updated in 2 years)
suddenlybananas•7h ago
Hmmm, very little mention of South Africa in these prompts.
defrost•6h ago
Buried deep in the #include Tom Sharpe Riotous Assembly and #include Jeremy Taylor Ag Pleez Daddy et al material.
mirashii•6h ago
https://www.theverge.com/news/668220/grok-white-genocide-sou...

Another lame excuse and some faux transparency to go with it.

jsheard•6h ago
> faux transparency

Yep, this isn't the first time they've made this play. Remember when they open sourced the X/Twitter algorithm in the name of transparency-maxxing? Those repos haven't been updated for nearly two years now.

sidibe•5h ago
The repo has served its intended purpose: his legion of bizarre fans can now say "it's open source" and brag about his transparency
ryanschaefer•5h ago
Call me cynical but this smells like a PR stunt to get people talking about how much controlling the system prompt matters to everyone’s interaction with assistants.

Most people wouldn’t give it a second thought unless something like this happened and it’s now plain to see how quickly they can be (poorly) manipulated.

readthenotes1•6h ago
Other than https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/pull/3
_1•6h ago
Pretty basic stuff that you'd been in a blog post from 2022.
qoez•6h ago
I know this is fake but I like that it puts pressure on openai etc to be more transparent.
thrance•6h ago
No mention of the "white genocide" story aka why they need to whitewash their system prompt and are releasing this. They were quite efficient in covering it up.
malfist•6h ago
Elon claims that was done by an "unauthorized employee"

I believe that as much as I believe it when a politician says it was an "overzealous intern"

tencentshill•5h ago
It must have been Adrian Dittmann!
readthenotes1•6h ago
Other than

https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/pull/3

belter•6h ago
Quite a biased dataset you have there...
Squarex•6h ago
It's response for their South African debacle. https://x.com/xai/status/1923183620606619649
miohtama•3h ago
Regardless of what one thinks about Mr Musk, this is very good move and ethical thing to do and I hope other LLMs would follow the lead
drivingmenuts•6h ago
Why are y'all associating with a neo-Nazi wannabe?
jsight•6h ago
This was interesting: "Grok 3's BigBrain mode is not publicly available." - What is "BigBrain"?
thomassmith65•5h ago
It's a private version of Grok that can query the US Social Security database to locate fertile Elon Musk fans with desirable genes. /s

Heavyweight: Create Important Letters in Seconds

https://heavyweight.cc/
1•gaws•1m ago•0 comments

Thoughts on Thinking

https://dcurt.is/thinking
1•bradgessler•2m ago•0 comments

Bluesky ThinkUp Tribute

https://www.val.town/x/tmcw/bluesky-thinkup-tribute
1•stevekrouse•4m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: What are the best open-source tools for anomaly detection?

1•magundu•5m ago•0 comments

The Golden Age of computer user groups

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/08/the-golden-age-of-computer-user-groups/
1•rbanffy•8m ago•0 comments

Dominion Energy's NEM 2.0 Proposal: What It Means for Solar in Virginia

https://www.virtuesolar.com/2025/05/16/dominion-nem-2/
1•Vsolar•8m ago•0 comments

Remarks on AI from NZ – By Neal Stephenson

https://nealstephenson.substack.com/p/remarks-on-ai-from-nz
1•pavel_lishin•10m ago•0 comments

Industry and identity: How labor migration reshaped culture in 19C Britai

https://www.broadstreet.blog/p/industry-and-identity-how-labor-migration
1•hunglee2•10m ago•0 comments

Physical cloaking works like a disappearing act for structural defects

https://techxplore.com/news/2025-05-physical-cloaking-defects.html
1•PaulHoule•10m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Alfa, always up-to-date code docs when using AI code editors

https://www.alfahq.ai/
1•72736379•14m ago•0 comments

Building JetClock

https://www.oliverrees.co.uk/posts/jet-clock
2•eterm•15m ago•1 comments

The NSA's practices for torturing American citizens seeking customer service

https://medium.com/@rviragh/the-nsas-practices-for-torturing-american-citizens-seeking-customer-service-880014b3d2cf
2•logicallee•17m ago•0 comments

Compare Voice AI cost and latency

https://comparevoiceai.com/
1•whoami_nr•17m ago•1 comments

AMD is allegedly working on Arm-based "Sound Wave" APUs for Microsoft's Surface

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-is-allegedly-working-on-arm-based-sound-wave-apus-for-microsofts-surface-laptops-next-year
1•pjmlp•18m ago•0 comments

Nvidia says it is not sending GPU designs to China

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/16/nvidia-chips-china-shanghai.html
2•belter•21m ago•0 comments

Maybe I Am the Asshole?

https://nautil.us/maybe-i-am-the-asshole-1211199/
1•dnetesn•23m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Any good tools to pgdump multi tenant database?

2•polishdude20•23m ago•3 comments

Whales Run Aground by the Sun

https://nautil.us/whales-run-aground-by-the-sun-1211535/
2•dnetesn•24m ago•0 comments

GpTA: Grand Tap Awaiting

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/gpta-grand-tap-awaiting/id6745721749
1•lucasiankowski•25m ago•1 comments

What Can You Do with a Slide Rule?

https://www.math.utah.edu/~pa/sliderules/
3•Tomte•25m ago•0 comments

What Ben Franklin Said (2011)

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/what-ben-franklin-really-said
1•Tomte•26m ago•0 comments

George Orwell's rules for a nice cup of tea (1946)

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-foundation/orwell/essays-and-other-works/a-nice-cup-of-tea/
1•mdp2021•26m ago•1 comments

Screenshothis – Ditch Manual Screenshots, Automate with Our API

https://screenshothis.com/
1•danestves•28m ago•1 comments

Good Design Comes from Looking, Great Design Comes from Looking Away

https://www.chrbutler.com/good-design-comes-from-looking-great-design-comes-from-looking-away
4•delaugust•29m ago•2 comments

New Life Hack: Using LLMs and Constraint Solvers for Personal Logistics Tasks

https://emschwartz.me/new-life-hack-using-llms-to-generate-constraint-solver-programs-for-personal-logistics-tasks/
2•emschwartz•31m ago•0 comments

Student asks for her tuition fees back after catching professor using ChatGPT

https://fortune.com/2025/05/15/chatgpt-openai-northeastern-college-student-tuition-fees-back-catching-professor/
3•pavel_lishin•31m ago•1 comments

Fortnite added an AI-powered Darth Vader; players tricked him into saying slurs

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/battle-royale/fortnite-added-an-ai-powered-darth-vader-and-surprise-players-immediately-tricked-him-into-saying-slurs/
2•healsdata•34m ago•0 comments

The Long Arc of Semiconductor Scaling

https://www.chipstrat.com/p/the-long-arc-of-semiconductor-scaling
1•rbanffy•35m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Facing unemployment – what now?

3•octo888•36m ago•5 comments

Sneaky Malware Hidden in Transitive Dependency of ESLint-config-Airbnb-compat

https://root.sigsegv.in/posts/sneaky-malware-hidden-in-transitive-dependency/
3•abhisek•36m ago•0 comments