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The LLM developers already know this trick, so I expect that if you attach documents, they are processed after your prompt.

There is a further trick that is probably already integrated: simply giving the same input twice greatly improves model performance.

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Gotcha, thanks for explaining. It’s interesting because there are times I say “look at his document and do this” but forget to attach the doc. I’ve always had the sense Claude is better “prepped” when it anticipates he document coming. Sometimes I’ve said “in the next message I’m going to give you a document, here is what I want you to do, if there’s anything you are unclear in before we begin ask me questions”. This seems to bring better results, but I’ve not done any sort of robust test.