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Constraints (in prompting)

Vincoli (nel prompting)

Constraints, in prompting, are specifications of what the AI must avoid, respect, or mandatorily include in the output. Contrary to intuition, constraints don't limit the AI, they guide it. A prompt without constraints produces generic and often unusable output; a prompt with clear constraints produces output calibrated to real needs.

How it's used in Grace

In Grace, Constraints are worth 15% of the score. The AI judge rewards multiple, specific constraints: tone, length, what to exclude, what must be included. It is often the dimension where users improve fastest after reading the feedback from their first scenarios.

Related terms

• Prompting
• Output Format
• Audience (in prompting)
• Role Assignment
• Token Efficiency

More in Prompting

• Prompt
• Prompting
• Role Assignment
• Zero-shot
• Few-shot
• Chain of Thought
• Prompt Engineering
• Output Format

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