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In the last year, things like "you are an expert on..." have gotten much less effective in my private tests, while actually describing the problem precisely has gotten better in terms of producing results.

In other words, all the sort of lazy prompt engineering hacks are becoming less effective. Domain expertise is becoming more effective.



yes that would explain the effect I think. I'll try that out this week.




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