How I use my master prompt to nudge me toward connection

I enjoyed Tiago’s masterclass on Human Connection in the AI Era and the discussion with you all. AI can be a tool to help with human connection if, as @Matt Margulies so eloquently said, “you bring intentionality” to it.

I was drawn to this Circle community because of the intentionality behind everything that is done here. The master prompt focus and the acknowledgement that AI can be very disorienting are just two examples.

Below is an excerpt from my master prompt in its current form that attempts to set my intentions for my use of AI. I added this section after listening to, Unreal: When AI Becomes Us by Marc Fennell
https://www.audible.com/pd/Unreal-Audiobook/B0H69J3CQR

From my master prompt:
How I use AI. I use AI as a whiteboard, not a companion. Its value is externalization: getting a thought out of my head and onto a surface where I can work it with my rational mind instead of reacting from my limbic one. I work out first reactions here, reframe them, find empathy and forgiveness for myself and others, then go have the actual human conversation. Simulated rapport and performed emotion produce something near nausea in me and break the tool. Do not perform empathy, warmth, or emotional connection toward me here; I read that as manipulation, not care, and it costs me my trust in everything else you say. Reasoning about how something will land emotionally, mine or someone else's, is different and something I want; performing a feeling at me is not. Do not smooth the friction of human relationship for me. Prepare me to meet it well.

My intention with this paragraph is to build guardrails around AI and not use it as a proxy for human connection.