Structure Your Instructions
Why structure?
Section titled “Why structure?”Structure is not about aesthetics — it’s about reliability: the model should quickly see what is the task, data, examples, and hard rules.
Techniques: named sections (ROLE, TASK, RULES, TONE), XML tags for longer prompts, and hierarchy where critical prohibitions appear late and are clearly marked.
Avoid mixing everything into a single sentence and avoid burying important prohibitions far from the end without clear marking.
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