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What actually makes a prompt “good”?

I’ve been experimenting with prompt engineering and noticed that simply making a prompt longer doesn’t necessarily make the output better. For people who use prompting regularly, what do you think makes the biggest difference in the quality of an AI response? Is it giving detailed context, defining…

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  1. 2026-10-08 18:15 · r/PromptEngineering
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