[FranklinMaillot]

In my limited experience, I came to the same conclusion regarding simple prompt being more efficient than very detailed list of instructions. But if you look at OpenAI's system prompt for GPT4, it's an endless set of instructions with DOs and DONTs so I'm confused. Surely they must know something about prompting their model.

[bongodongobob]

That's for chatting and interfacing conversationally with a human. Using the API is a completely different ballgame because it's not meant to be a back and forth conversation with a human.