Anthropic revises its Prompt engineering best practices guide

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Revised the Prompt engineering best practices document — updated to move away from a focus on assigning roles and to put clear instructions and explanations of purpose first

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A record of a lab changing its official recommendations. The role-prompting practice of 2023 has officially receded

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Officialclaude.comhttps://claude.com/blog/best-practices-for-prompt-engineering

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