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Realized our "system prompt" was one sentence and had been the whole time

Kind of embarrassing but figured I'd share since I bet it's more common than people admit. Went digging into why our support bot kept making up refund amounts that were just... wrong, confidently stated, totally fabricated. Pulled up the system prompt expecting something reasonably built out. It wa…

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  1. 2026-09-23 23:12 · r/PromptEngineering
    Realized our "system prompt" was one sentence and had been the whole time

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