talk-normal-llm-prompt

仓库: aradotso/trending-skills
安装量: 332
排名: #9783

安装

npx skills add https://github.com/aradotso/trending-skills --skill talk-normal-llm-prompt
talk-normal
Skill by
ara.so
— Daily 2026 Skills collection.
talk-normal
is a system prompt (plus a shell-script helper) that strips AI slop — bullet-point padding, hollow affirmations, corporate filler — from any LLM while preserving all useful information. Tested at
~73% character reduction
on GPT-4o-mini and GPT-5.4 with no information loss.
How it works
The project is a single
prompt.md
file (the system prompt) plus optional shell helpers. You copy the prompt text into the "System" field of any LLM interface or API call.
repo layout
├── prompt.md ← the system prompt (main artifact)
├── CHANGELOG.md ← rule history
├── CONTRIBUTING.md ← how to add rules
└── TEST_RESULTS.md ← before/after comparisons
Installation
1 — Clone the repo
git
clone https://github.com/hexiecs/talk-normal.git
cd
talk-normal
2 — Read the prompt
cat
prompt.md
3 — Copy into your tool
Paste the contents of
prompt.md
into:
ChatGPT
→ Settings → Customize ChatGPT → Custom Instructions → "How should ChatGPT respond?"
Claude.ai
→ Project Instructions
Cursor / Windsurf
→
.cursorrules
or global AI rules
API calls
→
system
parameter (see examples below)
Using the prompt via API
OpenAI (Python)
import
os
from
pathlib
import
Path
from
openai
import
OpenAI
client
=
OpenAI
(
api_key
=
os
.
environ
[
"OPENAI_API_KEY"
]
)
system_prompt
=
Path
(
"prompt.md"
)
.
read_text
(
)
response
=
client
.
chat
.
completions
.
create
(
model
=
"gpt-4o-mini"
,
messages
=
[
{
"role"
:
"system"
,
"content"
:
system_prompt
}
,
{
"role"
:
"user"
,
"content"
:
"What is Python?"
}
,
]
,
)
print
(
response
.
choices
[
0
]
.
message
.
content
)
OpenAI (curl)
SYSTEM
=
$(
cat
prompt.md
|
jq
-Rs
.
)
curl
https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions
\
-H
"Authorization: Bearer
$OPENAI_API_KEY
"
\
-H
"Content-Type: application/json"
\
-d
"{
\"
model
\"
:
\"
gpt-4o-mini
\"
,
\"
messages
\"
[ { \" role \" : \" system \" , \" content \" : $SYSTEM }, { \" role \" : \" user \" , \" content \" : \" What is Python? \" } ] }" Anthropic Claude (Python) import os from pathlib import Path import anthropic client = anthropic . Anthropic ( api_key = os . environ [ "ANTHROPIC_API_KEY" ] ) system_prompt = Path ( "prompt.md" ) . read_text ( ) message = client . messages . create ( model = "claude-opus-4-5" , max_tokens = 1024 , system = system_prompt , messages = [ { "role" : "user" , "content" : "Explain Docker in one paragraph." } ] , ) print ( message . content [ 0 ] . text ) Google Gemini (Python) import os from pathlib import Path import google . generativeai as genai genai . configure ( api_key = os . environ [ "GEMINI_API_KEY" ] ) system_prompt = Path ( "prompt.md" ) . read_text ( ) model = genai . GenerativeModel ( model_name = "gemini-1.5-flash" , system_instruction = system_prompt , ) response = model . generate_content ( "What is a neural network?" ) print ( response . text ) Ollama (local models) SYSTEM = $( cat prompt.md ) ollama run llama3 \ --system " $SYSTEM " \ "What is a REST API?" Or via the Ollama Python SDK: import subprocess , json from pathlib import Path system_prompt = Path ( "prompt.md" ) . read_text ( ) result = subprocess . run ( [ "ollama" , "run" , "llama3" ] , input = f"SYSTEM: { system_prompt } \nUSER: What is a REST API?" , capture_output = True , text = True , ) print ( result . stdout ) Shell helper: one-liner wrapper A reusable shell function that injects the prompt automatically:

Add to ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc

export TALK_NORMAL_PROMPT = " $HOME /talk-normal/prompt.md" asknormal ( ) { local question = " $* " local system system = $( cat " $TALK_NORMAL_PROMPT " ) curl -s https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $OPENAI_API_KEY " \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d " $( jq -n \ --arg sys " $system " \ --arg q " $question " \ '{model:"gpt-4o-mini",messages:[{role:"system",content:$sys},{role:"user",content:$q}]}' ) " | jq -r '.choices[0].message.content' } Usage: source ~/.bashrc asknormal "What is the CAP theorem?" Embedding in a project's AI config Cursor ( .cursorrules )

Prepend talk-normal to your existing rules

cat talk-normal/prompt.md

.cursorrules echo ""

.cursorrules echo "# Project-specific rules below"

.cursorrules cat your-existing-rules.md

.cursorrules OpenAI Assistants API import os from pathlib import Path from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI ( api_key = os . environ [ "OPENAI_API_KEY" ] ) system_prompt = Path ( "talk-normal/prompt.md" ) . read_text ( ) assistant = client . beta . assistants . create ( name = "Normal Assistant" , instructions = system_prompt , model = "gpt-4o-mini" , ) print ( f"Assistant ID: { assistant . id } " ) Combining with your own system prompt talk-normal rules are additive — prepend them before your domain instructions: from pathlib import Path talk_normal = Path ( "talk-normal/prompt.md" ) . read_text ( ) your_rules = """ You are a senior backend engineer. Answer questions about Python, Go, and distributed systems. """ combined_system = f" { talk_normal } \n\n---\n\n { your_rules } " Common patterns Pattern 1: Measure verbosity reduction def verbosity_ratio ( before : str , after : str ) -

float : """Returns fraction of original length kept (lower = more concise).""" return len ( after ) / len ( before ) before = "Python is a high-level, interpreted programming language known for its readability..."

1583 chars

after

"Python is a high-level, interpreted language known for readability..."

513 chars

print ( f" { verbosity_ratio ( before , after ) : .0% } of original length" )

→ 32%

Pattern 2: A/B test with and without the prompt import os from pathlib import Path from openai import OpenAI client = OpenAI ( api_key = os . environ [ "OPENAI_API_KEY" ] ) system_prompt = Path ( "talk-normal/prompt.md" ) . read_text ( ) question = "What is Kubernetes?" def ask ( system : str | None , user : str ) -

str : messages = [ ] if system : messages . append ( { "role" : "system" , "content" : system } ) messages . append ( { "role" : "user" , "content" : user } ) resp = client . chat . completions . create ( model = "gpt-4o-mini" , messages = messages ) return resp . choices [ 0 ] . message . content without = ask ( None , question ) with_prompt = ask ( system_prompt , question ) print ( f"Without: { len ( without ) } chars" ) print ( f"With: { len ( with_prompt ) } chars" ) print ( f"Reduction: { ( 1 - len ( with_prompt ) / len ( without ) ) : .0% } " ) Pattern 3: Keep the prompt up to date

Pull latest rules from upstream

cd talk-normal git pull origin main

Check what changed

git log --oneline -10 cat CHANGELOG.md | head -50 Contributing a new rule Fork the repo and create a branch: git checkout -b rule/no-em-dashes Edit prompt.md — add your rule in plain imperative English Add an entry to CHANGELOG.md Open an Issue or PR describing: what slop the rule targets, a before/after example

Quick before/after test for your new rule

SYSTEM

$( cat prompt.md ) echo "Test question" | asknormal

uses your modified prompt

Troubleshooting Symptom Fix Model still uses bullet points Ensure the system prompt is in the system role, not prepended to user Prompt too long for context window Use a smaller model or trim older messages; prompt.md is intentionally compact Ollama ignores system prompt Some quantized models have weak instruction-following; try mistral or llama3 Rules conflict with your own system prompt Put talk-normal rules first; add

Override:

comment before conflicting rules
Response is too terse / lost information
The prompt reduces filler, not facts — file an issue with a reproduction case
Key facts for agents
Primary artifact
:
prompt.md
— copy its text verbatim as the
system
message
No code to run
this is a prompt, not a library; no
pip install
, no build step
Model-agnostic
works with GPT, Claude, Gemini, LLaMA, Mistral, etc.
Tested reduction
~72–73% character reduction, zero information loss on 10-question benchmark
License
MIT — use freely in commercial products
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