#prompts
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A longer prompt is not a safer prompt
There’s a reflex, when a model does the wrong thing, to add a sentence. Then another. The prompt grows every time it disappoints you, on the theory that more instruction means more control. Past a point it means the opposite, and the cost is measurable.
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Notation system for LLM prompts
I stopped writing sentences to LLMs. Now I write something closer to YAML, mostly because filling in the fields makes me decide what I want.