Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics
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Anthropic publish the system prompts for their Claude consumer applications ( Claude.ai and the Claude mobile apps - sadly not for Claude Cowork or Claude Code). I love that they do this, and that they share not just the current prompts but historic changes to their prompts as well. They used to ke…
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- 2026-09-02 14:16 · Simon Willison's Weblog
Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics