On: GitHub Copilot Chat Leaked Prompt

[jameshart]

They’re not writing in the imperative mood. An imperative prompt would read:

   Be an ai chatbot
   Be kind and helpful and patient
   …

But at that point the text prediction would probably devolve into 4chan green text nonsense so it’s probably best not to go there.

[jameshart → jameshart]

And to complete the thought:

The ‘You are an AI chatbot’ form is actually grammatically ‘predicative’, not ‘imperative’ (ie it describes what is not what must be done)

[heyjamesknight → jameshart]

Isn’t it Indicative, not Imperative?

[jameshart → heyjamesknight]

Good point - indicative is a better term since it is a grammatical ‘mood’, same as imperative.