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Prompt & Context Engineering
A summarization prompt says 'don't be too long, don't leave out anything important, avoid being vague.' Output quality is inconsistent. What's the principle being violated?
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Answer: A — Instructions should be specific and positively framed — state what to do, not a list of what to avoid
Instruction clarity means specific and positively framed. A stack of negatives gives the model nothing concrete to aim at — replacing them with an explicit format and rule is the standard fix.
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