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andy_ppptoday at 6:05 PM1 replyview on HN

Shorter is better. This can be applied to human communication too.


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YuechenLitoday at 6:37 PM

Not always. If an instruction is short and vague, then LLMs tend to fill in the blanks by guessing and the results are unpredictable. Semantic density is the key, prompts/instructions should be actionable and unambiguous over being terse and vague.

So, it's more about being concise.