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Telling a model 'don't be generic' does nothing on its own; giving it specific anchors does. The gain is verifiability, not quality.

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Three questions before you type structure most of the prompt. Specificity is the strongest single lever (Hedges g=1.34); 'be exceptional' alone does almost nothing.

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Same model, same prompt. The source you paste, not the prompt you write, decides whether the numbers are real.

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Same model, same task, two paragraphs of operator context, dramatically different output. The kit, the design history, and the principle for adapting it to your own situation.

4 files

Drop any document in. See which analytical perspectives it covers, which it skips, the voice, what evidence backs each numerical claim. Free, open source, useful from the first paste.

11 files

Hallucination is six or more distinct failure modes. Different mechanisms. Different solutions. Name the type first.

4 files

77 to 100 percent of AI-generated numbers are temporally unstable. Source material fixes it. Prompts don't.

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Source material drops unsourced numbers from roughly half to single digits. Three steps.

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