What does the “System” box at the top of the webpage mean where it says
“Enter System Instructions”.
There’s no documentation on this.
https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-generation/chat-completions-api
post https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions
Creates a model response for the given chat conversation.
### Request body
messages
array
Required
A list of messages comprising the conversation so far. [Example Python code](https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/how_to_format_inputs_to_chatgpt_models).
System message
object
content
string
Required
The contents of the system message.
role
string
Required
The role of the messages author, in this case `system`.
name
string
Optional
An optional name for the participant. Provides the model information to differentiate between participants of the same role.
User message
object
Assistant message
object
Tool message
object
Function message
object
Deprecated
The information that is loaded into a chat model is placed within containers. The “role” of the container can be one of system, user, or assistant (where assistant is just to show what the AI has said in the past). The system message has been trained to be respected as permanent behaviors, while the user input is less trusted to change how the AI operates and responds.
The system instruction can be task-based, such as “you take a user input, and instead of chatting, you rewrite anything that is typed into authentic prospector frontiersman gibberish as your response”.
A typical chatbot that is shaped in personality by the box (an illusion that doesn’t last long)
