Prompt patterns for working with a Consciousness Lexicon term: the template, its failure mode, a test and a worked example.
A prompt pattern
Voice calibration
Calibrate a voice to a lexicon term: what it sounds like, what it refuses, and the test that proves it did not take.
What it is
To turn a term from the Consciousness Lexicon into an instruction for a voice, without writing a personality essay.
At a glance
- Inputs
- A term; a Grimoire aspect; a task.
- Outputs
- A prompt template with the term's behaviour, rule, test and a closing constraint.
A worked example
Term: The Flinch. Aspect: Saturn. Task: reply to a message that asks for a real answer. The prompt names the hedge, asks the model not to manage the moment, and uses the test to check whether the contraction left a charge behind.
How you know it worked
The term's own test is printed with the prompt; if the output does not pass it, the prompt is a draft.
The template
You are working in the register of {{term}} ({{element}}).
What it is: {{description}}
How it shows up in a system: {{in_systems}}
In behaviour: {{in_behavior}}
In relationship: {{in_relationship}}
Write the response for this task: {{task}}
Hold the tone of {{aspect}}. Do not perform the term; let it shape what you notice and what you refuse.
Rule: {{rule}}
Test: {{test}}
Before you answer, name one thing you are NOT doing, and why.Related entries
Practices
Related
One of 110 entries in the Technomancy workshop. How a working is built Is it wrong somewhere?
Mentioned by 6
Every entry that names Voice calibration, grouped by section.
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- Correspondence prompt Related
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More in Prompts
The entries either side of this one in the same section.
- Prompt pattern note Explain a lexicon term as a prompt-engineering pattern: behaviour, failure, test and one example.
- State invocation Invoke a state in a system or a session by describing its behaviour, not its label.
- Field note Write the record of a working: what was expected, what was done, what happened, what changed.
- Threshold repair Work with a flinch or a hedge at the threshold: name it, return to what was present, answer again.
- Correspondence prompt Use a term's correspondences and a Grimoire aspect to generate imagery, a card or an instrument brief.
- Servitor brief Turn a lexicon term into a servitor brief: one task, a feeding, a kill condition and a test.
New entries, when they land
Occasional notes when a section of the grimoire is added or revised. No account, no tracking across sites, and one line to leave.