The most powerful change I have run into is: "Positive phrasing" as a default, prefer to tell the model what they should do, and why. Not a prohibition on a beh

The most powerful change I have run into is: "Positive phrasing" as a default, prefer to tell the model what they should do, and why. Not a prohibition on a behavior. When you say "don't do x" you are just pre-seeding the model with "x" and the prohibition mitigates that some, but not as much as never having put "x" in the context in the first place. "Do Y, for these reasons" can be shaped to achieve what you mean by "Don't do X" "Don't do X" leads to "Wait, I need to make sure I didn't X" and "Let's look up X to make sure I don't do that." And each time the odds of X happening keeps going up, not down.