Seems to be doing too much, a 1 line in the system prompt is all you need. And it works well enough.
“Output tokens are precious, be succinct in your responses. Use ASD-STE100 simplified technical english”
“Output tokens are precious, be succinct in your responses. Use ASD-STE100 simplified technical english”
At this point I'd do anything to get claude to dumb down and simplify it's explanations in my code, so I'm looking forward to giving this a try and seeing how it goes.
Clause is a token torment machine that licks your balls while stealing your wallet
I've added the same thing to the system prompt of the internal agent I wrote for work, which talks to claude models. I have not gone into the details on whether it adheres to the format exactly, but i do see visibly less slop and less marketing nonsense in the Assistant messages.