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How to Write a System Prompt for a Voice AI Agent

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Quick answer: Write the prompt as eight short, labelled sections: role, spoken-output rules, turn rules, detail capture, tools, escalation, three example exchanges and per-call context. Keep it under 2,000 tokens, the point past which ElevenLabs says prompts add latency and cost. Our complete eight…

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  1. 2026-09-26 14:52 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    How to Write a System Prompt for a Voice AI Agent

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