Not really, you can add a prompt to commercial LLM products to alter the persona a bit but the actual system prompt the harness is using is opaque to you. Your Claudes, Kimis, Mistrals and what have you are a polished product on top of the model, they’re not the model itself. A lot of the actual day-to-day software engineering of these things is writing a harness that’s robust enough to deal with a cantankerous non-deterministic pile of linear algebra that doesn’t know the difference between ‘looks good’ and ‘is good’.
Most providers allow you to overwrite with your own system prompt so…
Not really, you can add a prompt to commercial LLM products to alter the persona a bit but the actual system prompt the harness is using is opaque to you. Your Claudes, Kimis, Mistrals and what have you are a polished product on top of the model, they’re not the model itself. A lot of the actual day-to-day software engineering of these things is writing a harness that’s robust enough to deal with a cantankerous non-deterministic pile of linear algebra that doesn’t know the difference between ‘looks good’ and ‘is good’.