How to exclude a specific categogy from a custom page template

Did you try:

function exclude_category($query) {
    if ( is_page('slug-of-page') && isset($query) ) {
        $query->set('cat', '-3');
    }
    return $query;
}
add_filter('pre_get_posts', 'exclude_category');

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