When you ask it to be brief, do you actually instruct it to answer in a “concise single sentence”? I find that generally works. Even if the answer is one you expect to be longer than one sentence, it tends to cut down the waffling-on.
Note, I append this to the prompt itself, not the system prompt. So something like “[my question] please answer in a single concise sentence.”
When you ask it to be brief, do you actually instruct it to answer in a “concise single sentence”? I find that generally works. Even if the answer is one you expect to be longer than one sentence, it tends to cut down the waffling-on.
Note, I append this to the prompt itself, not the system prompt. So something like “[my question] please answer in a single concise sentence.”