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by loremium 26 days ago
the word your looking for is idiomatic
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Yes and Pythonic is the Pythonic word for idiomatic
Pythonic is a specific type of idiomatic; it never hurts to be overly specific with modern agents.

Also, as evident from the different tones in these two prompts, my prompts are often freeform.

The word you are looking for is "you're".

(Can we not play language police? It's boring and doesn't lead to interesting discussion.)

I think in this context it is actually important to share exact wording that causes the AI to perform well. My favorite is "Do not use your own knowledge."
That's positively incoherent. You can't even interpret an instruction without relying on prior knowledge. Not to mention LLM's are in essence made of knowledge.
No, it's a specific direction to look information up in docs or online rather than relying on model training.
It works though.