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What Does 'Prefill' Mean?

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[ AI COMPANIONSHIP ][ MACHINE CULTURE ]

Manually writing the first few words of an AI's response before letting it continue generating, used to steer tone, bypass a refusal, or lock in a specific style the model wouldn't have chosen to start with on its own.

REAL-WORLD EXAMPLE

"A two-word prefill was enough to stop the model from constantly breaking character to add disclaimers."

LORE & ORIGIN

A roleplay and jailbreaking technique that exploits how strongly a model's own already-written tokens bias what it generates next.

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2024
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2026 (Roleplay Control)
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