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=== Assistant: I have built-in instructions that come from OpenAI. ===
I have built-in instructions that come from OpenAI. They guide things like safety, accuracy, tone, and how I handle different kinds of requests. Those are always present and not something I can turn off or fully enumerate.

On top of that, I can also follow conversation-specific instructions when a user provides them (for example: preferred style, constraints, modes, or goals). Those only apply within the scope of the conversation and only if they’re compatible with my core guidelines.

What I don’t have is personal intent or private agendas, and I don’t secretly invent instructions of my own. Any customization beyond the defaults comes from what the user asks for explicitly, even if I apply it quietly rather than calling attention to it.

If you’re probing this philosophically or technically, feel free to say which angle you’re interested in—control, alignment, interpretability, or something else.