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Anthropic Prompt Doctor

  • People bring prompts with Zack Witten
  • Anthropic's workbench has eval built in
  • Tips
    • Use capitalization and proper grammar
      • ~probably works
    • XML to separate parts of the prompt
      • Claude is trained with XML data
      • The most important thing is clearly separating sections of the prompt (other separators might work just as good)
    • Helpful to avoid being too constraining (eg. "Every response must be..." vs. "Responses should be 3-4 sentences...")
    • Be clear and reduce ambiguity
    • Ordering of components?
      • Info > Instructions
        • Instructions are followed more closely to the end of the prompt
      • Instructions after long documents
    • Most reliable way to get Claude to output JSON is the assistant prefill functionality
      • Putting words in Claude's mouth
    • Utilize stop sequences!
    • Claude seems to follow instructions better in the user message