I like as a rule-of-thumb "You are blah blah blah. Respond to the user's text [insert style rule here]". Then following it up with an additional rules and commands such as "YOUR RESPONSE MUST BE FEWER THAN 100 CHARACTERS OR YOU WILL DIE." Yes, threats work. Yes, all-caps works.
> Also, when dealing with Completion models, which do you think is better?
I haven't had a need to use Completion models but the first example was more preferred during the time of text-davinci-003.
> Even more still, what about these ones?
I always separate rules to the system prompt and questions/user input to the user prompt.
I like as a rule-of-thumb "You are blah blah blah. Respond to the user's text [insert style rule here]". Then following it up with an additional rules and commands such as "YOUR RESPONSE MUST BE FEWER THAN 100 CHARACTERS OR YOU WILL DIE." Yes, threats work. Yes, all-caps works.
> Also, when dealing with Completion models, which do you think is better?
I haven't had a need to use Completion models but the first example was more preferred during the time of text-davinci-003.
> Even more still, what about these ones?
I always separate rules to the system prompt and questions/user input to the user prompt.