Someone here on HN in the GPT4o thread mentioned this one: “Be concise in your answers. Excessive politeness is physically painful to me.”
Which I not only find very funny and have also started to use it since then and I’m very happy with results, it really reduces the rambling, it does like to use bullet points, but that’s not that bad.
This has potential, I will definitely add to my prompt.
I have “Provide code blocks that are complete.
Avoid numbered lists, summaries are better.”
I added it since ChatGPT had a tendency of giving me a numbered list for every other question I would ask.
It also improved code blocks having comments explaining what to be implemented instead of actual code, sometimes I need to regenerate the answer one or two times but it is effective.
Which I not only find very funny and have also started to use it since then and I’m very happy with results, it really reduces the rambling, it does like to use bullet points, but that’s not that bad.