‘你是一个有用的邮件助手’，以及其他Apple Intelligence指令

Apple’s latest developer betas launched last week with a handful of the generative AI features that were announced at WWDC and are headed to your iPhones, iPads, and Macs over the next several months. On Apple’s computers, however, you can actually read the instructions programmed into the model supporting some of those Apple Intelligence features.

苹果最新的开发者测试版上周发布，其中包含了一些在WWDC上宣布的生成式人工智能功能，并将在接下来的几个月内推向您的iPhone、iPad和Mac。然而，在苹果的计算机上，您实际上可以阅读到支持某些苹果智能功能的模型中编程的指令。

They show up as prompts that precede anything you say to a chatbot by default, and we’ve seen them uncovered for AI tools like Microsoft Bing and DALL-E before. Now a member of the macOS 15.1 beta subreddit posted that they’d discovered the files containing those backend prompts. You can’t alter any of the files, but they do give an early hint at how the sausage is made.

它们默认出现在与聊天机器人交谈之前的提示中，我们之前已经看到了像Microsoft Bing和DALL-E这样的AI工具中发现了它们。现在，macOS 15.1测试版的一个成员发布了他们发现了包含这些后端提示的文件。你不能修改任何文件，但它们确实提前透露了一些制作过程。

In the example above, an AI bot for a “helpful mail assistant” is being told how to ask a series of questions based on the content of an email. It could be part of Apple’s Smart Reply feature, which can go on to suggest possible replies for you.

在上面的示例中，一个“有用的邮件助手”AI机器人被告知如何根据电子邮件的内容提出一系列问题。这可能是苹果的智能回复功能的一部分，它可以为您提供可能的回复建议。

A screenshot of an instruction prompt telling the LLM to provide a reply based on a provided snippet, limiting its answer to 50 words — and not to hallucinate or make things up.

Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge

截图：Wes Davis / The Verge

This sounds like Apple’s “Rewrite” feature, one of the Writing Tools that you can access by highlighting text and right-clicking (or, in iOS, long-pressing) on it. Its instructions include passages saying, “Please limit the answer within 50 words. Do not hallucinate. Do not make up factual information.”

这听起来像是苹果的“重写”功能之一，您可以通过选中文本并右键单击（或在iOS上长按）来访问这些写作工具。它的指令包括一些段落，其中写着“请将答案限制在50个字以内。不要产生幻觉。不要虚构事实信息。”

A screenshot instructing Apple Intelligence to summarize emails within three sentences and under 60 words.

Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge

截图：Wes Davis / The Verge

This brief prompt summarizes emails, with a careful instruction not to answer any questions.

这个简短的提示总结了电子邮件，并谨慎指示不要回答任何问题。

Screenshot instructing Apple Intelligence on how to construct a story based on photographs.

Screenshot: Wes Davis / The Verge

截图：Wes Davis / The Verge

I’m pretty certain that this is the instru...