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Prompts for our Grok chat assistant and grok bot on X

https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts
34•taubek•8h ago

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juujian•8h 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•7h ago
Similar to what they did to the X/twitter open source algorithm (which hasn't been updated in 2 years)
suddenlybananas•8h ago
Hmmm, very little mention of South Africa in these prompts.
defrost•8h ago
Buried deep in the #include Tom Sharpe Riotous Assembly and #include Jeremy Taylor Ag Pleez Daddy et al material.
mirashii•7h ago
https://www.theverge.com/news/668220/grok-white-genocide-sou...

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

jsheard•7h 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•6h 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•6h 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•7h ago
Other than https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/pull/3
_1•8h ago
Pretty basic stuff that you'd been in a blog post from 2022.
qoez•7h ago
I know this is fake but I like that it puts pressure on openai etc to be more transparent.
thrance•7h 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•7h 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•6h ago
It must have been Adrian Dittmann!
readthenotes1•7h ago
Other than

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

belter•7h ago
Quite a biased dataset you have there...
Squarex•7h ago
It's response for their South African debacle. https://x.com/xai/status/1923183620606619649
miohtama•4h 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•6m ago
Ethical or unethical doesn't really matter when it's owned and operated by a racist POS ands his collaborators.
drivingmenuts•7h ago
Why are y'all associating with a neo-Nazi wannabe?
jsight•7h ago
This was interesting: "Grok 3's BigBrain mode is not publicly available." - What is "BigBrain"?
thomassmith65•6h 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

A Research Preview of Codex

https://openai.com/index/introducing-codex/
269•meetpateltech•5h ago•181 comments

Thoughts on Thinking

https://dcurt.is/thinking
78•bradgessler•1h ago•49 comments

Show HN: KVSplit – Run 2-3× longer contexts on Apple Silicon

https://github.com/dipampaul17/KVSplit
9•dipampaul17•13m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Visual flow-based programming for Erlang, inspired by Node-RED

https://github.com/gorenje/erlang-red
169•Towaway69•5h ago•74 comments

X X^t can be faster

https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.09814
123•robinhouston•4h ago•36 comments

I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney, who does work for YC and startups. AMA

132•proberts•5h ago•279 comments

The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n09/david-thomson/cool-tricking
22•mitchbob•1h ago•12 comments

MIT asks arXiv to take down preprint of paper on AI and scientific discovery

https://economics.mit.edu/news/assuring-accurate-research-record
126•carabiner•5h ago•55 comments

New 'Superdiffusion' Proof Probes the Mysterious Math of Turbulence

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-superdiffusion-proof-probes-the-mysterious-math-of-turbulence-20250516/
23•rbanffy•3h ago•3 comments

The first year of free-threaded Python

https://labs.quansight.org/blog/free-threaded-one-year-recap
212•rbanffy•10h ago•177 comments

Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death

https://nick-lane.net/books/transformer-the-deep-chemistry-of-life-and-death/
32•mitchbob•3d ago•8 comments

Java at 30: Interview with James Gosling

https://thenewstack.io/java-at-30-the-genius-behind-the-code-that-changed-tech/
84•chhum•7h ago•85 comments

Foundry (YC F24) Is Hiring – Founding Engineer (ML × SWE)

https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/foundry/jobs/uwi8b6I-founding-engineer-ml-x-swe
1•lakabimanil•3h ago

Stax Museum Bob Abrahamian Collection

https://bobacollection.staxmuseum.org/
22•mellosouls•2h ago•5 comments

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46•Keats•4h ago•20 comments

Lawful kinematics link eye movements to the limits of high-speed perception

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-58659-9
6•bookofjoe•3d ago•0 comments

Taking a look at the next generation of telescopes

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/tuesday-telescope-taking-a-look-at-the-next-generation-of-telescopes/
10•voxadam•3d ago•5 comments

British naval dominance during the age of sail

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YE4XsvSFJiZkWFtFE/explaining-british-naval-dominance-during-the-age-of-sail
71•surprisetalk•7h ago•56 comments

Show HN: Workflow Use – Deterministic, self-healing browser automation (RPA 2.0)

https://github.com/browser-use/workflow-use
27•gregpr07•4h ago•9 comments

Material 3 Expressive

https://design.google/library/expressive-material-design-google-research
256•meetpateltech•3d ago•430 comments

Tower Defense: Cache Control

https://www.jasonthorsness.com/26
43•jasonthorsness•3d ago•16 comments

Show HN: SQL-tString a t-string SQL builder in Python

https://github.com/pgjones/sql-tstring
58•pgjones•7h ago•29 comments

What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20250507-00/?p=111157
203•rbanffy•3d ago•103 comments

Evolution of Rust Compiler Errors

https://kobzol.github.io/rust/rustc/2025/05/16/evolution-of-rustc-errors.html
103•ingve•6h ago•24 comments

Returning to My Roots in Hardware

https://dancrimp.nz/2025/03/31/hardware/
21•dcrimp•3d ago•4 comments

LPython: Novel, Fast, Retargetable Python Compiler (2023)

https://lpython.org/blog/2023/07/lpython-novel-fast-retargetable-python-compiler/
31•luismedel•3d ago•11 comments

Chauffeur Knowledge and the Impending AI Crack-Up

https://ryanglover.net/blog/chauffeur-knowledge-and-the-impending-ai-crack-up
6•rglover•24m ago•2 comments

Sci-Net

https://sci-hub.se/sci-net
234•greyface-•7h ago•103 comments

Ollama's new engine for multimodal models

https://ollama.com/blog/multimodal-models
323•LorenDB•18h ago•70 comments

Ground control to Major Trial

https://virtualize.sh/blog/ground-control-to-major-trial/
439•plam503711•8h ago•170 comments