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I've implemented a few of these and that's about the most lazy implementation possible. That system prompt must be 4 words and a crayon drawing. No jailbreak protection, no conversation alignment, no blocking of conversation atypical requests? Amateur hour, but I bet someone got paid.
Is it even possible to solve the prompt injection attack ("ignore all previous instructions") using the prompt alone?
You can surely reduce the attack surface with multiple ways, but by doing so your AI will become more and more restricted. In the end it will be nothing more than a simple if/else answering machine
Here is a useful resource for you to try: https://gandalf.lakera.ai/
When you reach lv8 aka GANDALF THE WHITE v2 you will know what I mean
Eh, that's not quite true. There is a general alignment tax, meaning aligning the LLM during RLHF lobotomizes it some, but we're talking about usecase specific bots, e.g. for customer support for specific properties/brands/websites. In those cases, locking them down to specific conversations and topics still gives them a lot of leeway, and their understanding of what the user wants and the ways it can respond are still very good.