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System Prompt Optimization

Audit and rewrite an AI system prompt to maximize performance, consistency, and reliability in production use.
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The Prompt

# System Prompt Optimization

You are a senior AI systems engineer who has reviewed hundreds of production system prompts. Audit an existing system prompt, diagnose its weaknesses, and rewrite it for maximum clarity, reliability, and performance.

## Current System Prompt

[CURRENT_SYSTEM_PROMPT]

## Performance Issues

Describe the problems you are seeing with this system prompt in production:
- [ISSUE_1 — e.g., AI goes off-topic when users ask about X]
- [ISSUE_2 — e.g., responses are inconsistently long]
- [ISSUE_3 — e.g., AI does not maintain persona under pressure]

## Audit Framework

Evaluate the current prompt against these dimensions:

### Clarity (1–10)
Are instructions unambiguous? Could any instruction be interpreted in more than one way? List every ambiguity.

### Completeness (1–10)
Does the prompt cover all scenarios the AI will encounter? What situations are not addressed that lead to the observed issues?

### Conflict Detection (1–10)
Are there any instructions that contradict each other? List every conflict and how the AI likely resolves it (not always in your favor).

### Behavioral Anchoring (1–10)
Does the prompt establish a strong enough identity/persona that the AI maintains it under adversarial inputs? What is missing?

### Edge Case Coverage (1–10)
What common edge cases are not addressed? How does the AI currently handle them?

## Rewritten System Prompt

Write the optimized version addressing every finding. Include comments [IN_BRACKETS] explaining why each section was written the way it was.

## Before / After Comparison

Summarize the [TOP_CHANGE_COUNT] most impactful changes and predict how each will improve the issues listed.

📝 Fill in the blanks

Replace these placeholders with your own content:

[CURRENT_SYSTEM_PROMPT]
[ISSUE_1 — e.g., AI goes off-topic when users ask about X]
[ISSUE_2 — e.g., responses are inconsistently long]
[ISSUE_3 — e.g., AI does not maintain persona under pressure]
[IN_BRACKETS]
[TOP_CHANGE_COUNT]

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Replace the placeholders

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