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PII purifier

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

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!

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

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

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

API request

python
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=2000, 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)
typescript
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: 2000, 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);