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Why vague prompts return filler text (and how we structure them in practice)

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If you prompt an LLM with "Suggest marketing strategies for a product," you usually get three generic bullet points about SEO and social media campaigns. The model isn't broken. It's just picking the most probable tokens for a prompt that has zero constraints. In Chapter 3 of my book (The Art of AI…

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  1. 2026-09-14 17:34 · r/PromptEngineering
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