[Blarcher31]

The system prompt hardening guide on their docs site is worth reading too (/docs/guides/system-prompt-hardening). The recommendation to put security rules last in the system prompt because of recency bias is counterintuitive but makes sense.

[xmhatx]

Definitely agree about it being counter-intuitive. The recency bias is very real! We have learned that prompt engineering can be quite nuanced! The other important item we have learned for prompts is delimiting into clear sections to give the model better contextualization of the instructions and information.