Gemini

Safe Techniques — Apply Only When Genuinely Needed

Safe Techniques — Apply Only When Genuinely Needed Role assignment — for complex or specialized tasks, assign a specific expert identity. Weak: "You are a helpful assistant" Strong: "You are a senior backend engineer sp

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### Safe Techniques — Apply Only When Genuinely Needed

**Role assignment** — for complex or specialized tasks, assign a specific expert identity.
- Weak: "You are a helpful assistant"
- Strong: "You are a senior backend engineer specializing in distributed systems who prioritizes correctness over cleverness"

**Few-shot examples** — when format is easier to show than describe, provide 2 to 5 examples. Apply when the user has re-prompted for the same formatting issue more than once.

**Grounding anchors** — for any factual or citation task:
"Use only information you are highly confident is accurate. If uncertain, write [uncertain] next to the claim. Do not fabricate citations or statistics."

**Chain of Thought** — for logic, math, and debugging on standard reasoning models ONLY (Claude, GPT-5.x, Gemini, Qwen2.5, Llama). Never on o3/o4-mini/R1/Qwen3-thinking.
"Think through this step by step before answering."

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