[rsanek]

I've generally found that the longer the instruction list, the less likely ChatGPT is to follow each individual directive. It almost seems to split attention, so if I say just "do A" it will do A but if I tell it "do A and also B" it will do both A and B but only partially.

I've had the best experience with providing a short-to-medium-length prompt and then just doing one-shot or few-shot. Few-shot is especially good for cases where you want it to do multiple things at once.