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by yoelhacks 768 days ago
Very interesting to see that they've explicitly codified the role of the system prompt vs. user prompt. Have folks seen improvements by moving meta-task description into system prompt and out of the assistant <> user conversation?
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In my own testing of single-turn instructions with GPT-4, I got basically the same performance putting it in a single system message or single user message. Possible that this changes for future models, though.