telling the model what to leave out fixed more than any instruction about what to include
for the longest time i wrote prompts that piled on requirements and got bloated answers back. the flip that helped was adding a short do not include list at the end, no preamble, no summary of my own question back to me, no caveats unless the facts are genuinely uncertain. output got tighter right…
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- 2026-10-06 12:09 · r/PromptEngineering
telling the model what to leave out fixed more than any instruction about what to include