A Chinese phrasebook for coaxing ChatGPT into cooperation

What it does

This repository is a curated phrasebook of Chinese-language prompts designed to make ChatGPT adopt narrow, useful personas—Linux terminal, academic editor, English translator, frontend consultant, and dozens more. Each entry is a block of text you paste into the chat window to constrain the model’s behavior and output format. It is not software; it is a markdown catalog of conversational incantations.

The interesting bit

The project treats prompt engineering as a social hack rather than a technical interface: instead of API parameters, you simply tell the model “you are an Android interviewer” or “you are a text adventure game” and it complies. With over 60,000 stars, its popularity suggests that many Chinese-speaking users would rather copy a vetted script than improvise their own system prompts.

Key highlights

• Covers roughly two dozen distinct personas, from résumé writer to data analyst to children’s book author.
• Provides a JSON file (prompts-zh.json) for programmatic use.
• README also promotes a domestic Chinese mirror site (智造喵) for users who need local access.
• Prompts are copy-paste ready; no coding or API keys required.

Verdict

Grab a prompt if you write in Chinese and need ChatGPT to stay in character. Skip it if you are looking for an installable package or API wrapper.