PROMPTING BEST PRACTICES

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• Provide few-shot examples for the structure or output style you need.
• Keep your prompts short and concise.
• Ask for structured output if it helps (e.g., JSON, XML, Markdown, CSV, etc).
• Use variables / placeholders in your prompts for easier configuration.
• Prioritize giving clearer instructions over adding too many constraints.
• Control the maximum output length.
• Experiment with input formats and writing styles.
• Tune sampling (temperature, top-k, top-p) for determinism vs creativity.
• Guard against prompt injection; sanitize user text.
• Automate evaluation, integrate unit tests for outputs.
• Document and track prompt versions.
• Optimize for latency and cost in production pipelines.
• Document decisions, failures, and learnings for future devs.
• Delimit different sections with triple backticks or XML tags.