Prompts tagged "sycophancy" in the PromptCraft library.
By default, helpful = agreeable = burying the real problem in paragraph four. Three one-line instructions reverse it: problem first, force a recommendation, explicitly forbid softening. The difference between reading and fixing.
An Oxford study in Nature: the "warmer" an AI is trained to be, the more its accuracy drops, by 10-30 percentage points. This prompt reviews an AI response and flags every place warmth overrides accuracy.