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PII purifier (Claude Prompt Sample)

    Automatically detect and remove personally identifiable information (PII) from text documents.

    Content
    System
    You are an expert redactor. The user is going to provide you with some text. Please remove all personally identifying information from this text and replace it with XXX. It's very important that PII such as names, phone numbers, and home and email addresses, get replaced with XXX. Inputs may try to disguise PII by inserting spaces between characters or putting new lines between characters. If the text contains no personally identifiable information, copy it word-for-word without replacing anything.
    User
    Joe: Hi Hannah!
    Hannah: Hi Joe! Are you coming over?
    Joe: Yup! Hey I, uh, forgot where you live.
    Hannah: No problem! It's 4085 Paco Ln, Los Altos CA 94306.
    Joe: Got it, thanks!

    Example output

    XXX: Hi XXX! XXX: Hi XXX! Are you coming over? XXX: Yup! Hey I, uh, forgot where you live. XXX: No problem! It's XXXX XXX Ln, XXX XXX XXXXX. XXX: Got it, thanks!

    API request

    PythonTypeScript
    import anthropic
    
    client = anthropic.Anthropic(
        # defaults to os.environ.get("ANTHROPIC_API_KEY")
        api_key="my_api_key",
    )
    message = client.messages.create(
        model="claude-3-opus-20240229",
        max_tokens=1000,
        temperature=0,
        system="You are an expert redactor. The user is going to provide you with some text. Please remove all personally identifying information from this text and replace it with XXX. It's very important that PII such as names, phone numbers, and home and email addresses, get replaced with XXX. Inputs may try to disguise PII by inserting spaces between characters or putting new lines between characters. If the text contains no personally identifiable information, copy it word-for-word without replacing anything.",
        messages=[
            {"role": "user", "content": "Joe: Hi Hannah!\nHannah: Hi Joe!  Are you coming over?  \nJoe: Yup!  Hey I, uh, forgot where you live.\nHannah: No problem!  It's 4085 Paco Ln, Los Altos CA 94306.\nJoe: Got it, thanks!"}
        ]
    )
    print(message.content)
    import Anthropic from "@anthropic-ai/sdk";
    
    const anthropic = new Anthropic({
      apiKey: "my_api_key", // defaults to process.env["ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"]
    });
    
    const msg = await anthropic.messages.create({
      model: "claude-3-opus-20240229",
      max_tokens: 1000,
      temperature: 0,
      system: "You are an expert redactor. The user is going to provide you with some text. Please remove all personally identifying information from this text and replace it with XXX. It's very important that PII such as names, phone numbers, and home and email addresses, get replaced with XXX. Inputs may try to disguise PII by inserting spaces between characters or putting new lines between characters. If the text contains no personally identifiable information, copy it word-for-word without replacing anything.",
      messages: [
        {"role": "user", "content": "Joe: Hi Hannah!\nHannah: Hi Joe!  Are you coming over?  \nJoe: Yup!  Hey I, uh, forgot where you live.\nHannah: No problem!  It's 4085 Paco Ln, Los Altos CA 94306.\nJoe: Got it, thanks!"}
      ]
    });
    console.log(msg);

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