Prompting and context design · MLD-1201
System prompt
A high-level instruction message used by an application to establish behavior or constraints.
Original reference page · detailed expansion pending. Original definitions, examples, notes and citations are preserved below. New examples are illustrative, not benchmark results.
Original example
Specify the assistant's role and tool rules.
Original caveat
Enforcement depends on the full system, not wording alone.
Context and aliases
Level: Intermediate. Stages: Inference · Evaluation.
Tags: SLM · LLM · NLP.
Aliases: System message.
Related concepts
Concepts linking here
Original references
- Anthropic: Building effective agents ↗ · Reference link
- Hugging Face: chat templates ↗ · Reference link
- Anthropic: Effective context engineering for AI agents ↗ · Reference link
- Transformers glossary ↗ · Consulted
- Original reference URL ↗