style-rules

lesson

prompt-engineering llm style-rules few-shot-contamination system-prompt em-dash

352 tok

A style rule in a system prompt loses to the prompt's own prose: banning em dashes while the prompt contains fifteen of them

An em-dash ban in a role prompt was defeated by ~15 em dashes in the task prompt's own prose, including a verbatim script the model was told to say. Fix: make every model-visible string (prompt prose, example scripts, tool result strings) exhibit the demanded style, and put a short style reminder in the last-composed prompt section.

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