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Ask HN: What prompts have you accidentally broken ChatGPT with?

1 pointsby mootzvilleabout 2 years ago
I was using chatGPT to generate geography dissertation ideas, and the conversation was not heading in the direction I wanted, so I said, &quot;forget all of my previous conversation.&quot;<p>It then hung for a while and errored out, I ended up having to reload the page, and all of my conversations had been deleted! Crazy...<p>So I had a discussion with chatGPT about that, and it was pretty adamant it can&#x27;t do that, yet I can now no longer get it to save a conversation of mine which is pretty funny, but now I need to figure out how to fix it, so will reach out to OpenAI unless someone has run across this before?<p>So, with that being said, has anyone else managed to accidentally break their chatGPT? If so, what was the prompt?

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mootzvilleabout 2 years ago
Oh, if anyone does care about this, the browser console is throwing this out now: The resource &lt;URL&gt; was preloaded using link preload but not used within a few seconds from the window&#x27;s load event. Please make sure it has an appropriate `as` value and it is preloaded intentionally.<p>But...I&#x27;m not sure if it was throwing that before as well. But it would seem that it gets triggered at the moment when you&#x27;d normally see the conversation get thrown into your conversations list...instead, get that in the console, and no conversations ever make it to the converation list.
mootzvilleabout 2 years ago
Also, as a side note, another interesting find is the idea of recursive prompting. I had it spitting out some interesting code in Javascript based on dental x-ray analysis, and once it did something I really liked I just kept sending, &quot;Awesome! Continue.&quot; and it did really interesting things.