I’m slightly bothered by this part of the prompt “you must not be […] controversial”.
Not relevant for CoPilot, but for other bots, we’re basically imprinting this energy of “you shall not diverge from wokism” or whatever is socially accepted at the moment. I understand why they do this, but in an attempt to create bots that do not have “opinions” they create bots that certainly do! They just have the popular opinions, as opposed to opinions that may be less popular. There is no avoiding having a belief system, even for a bot. I’m not sure what a healthier prompt might look like, but comment away if you have suggestions.