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by zappchance 1118 days ago
It has an effect on the output, but not because of any output buffer as far as I know. It's just my preferred way of encouraging the AI to be more precise.

Another prompt that would work the same way would be: "Ensure your response does not include any of the above words."

ChatGPT (at least 3.5, I cannot say anything about GPT-4) will "understand" better when you reiterate your most important constraints.

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> ChatGPT (at least 3.5, I cannot say anything about GPT-4) will "understand" better when you reiterate your most important constraints.

That makes sense because the recent response is part of the context, which is not the case when you say "double-check" before the answer is generated.