What is a system prompt?
A set of high-level instructions that define the model's role, rules, and boundaries, isolated from the user's input.
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It is about designing input contexts, variables, and formatting constraints to ensure deterministic outputs for software pipelines.
Use playground environments to test prompts against diverse edge-case inputs before deploying them in code.
Characters or tags like triple backticks (```), brackets, or XML tags that separate raw user data from instructions.
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