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is the point of system prompts just to avoid prompt injection? or are they supposed to get better outputs too? I never have found a need for them. i.e. the exa
by rel2thr 2y ago
is the point of system prompts just to avoid prompt injection?
or are they supposed to get better outputs too?
I never have found a need for them. i.e. the example in the article
Just prompting like:
Write hello 3 different ways in spanish
works fine for me
- simonw 2y agoThey let you at least partially separate instructions from data. This is useful for things like "Translate this text to French" - you don't want any instructions in the text you are translating to interfere with that goal. If this was 100% robust then it would also solve prompt injection, but sadly it isn't.