{"id":1004,"date":"2026-09-17T01:40:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T01:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2026-09-17T01:40:30","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T01:40:30","slug":"llm-prefaces-for-less-frustration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/llm-prefaces-for-less-frustration\/","title":{"rendered":"LLM prefaces for less frustration"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I use these short prefaces to reduce AI frustration:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;readonly&#8221; &#8212; Obvs. Don&#8217;t do anything dangerous. I have to repeat this every few turns because they forget<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;note&#8221; &#8212; Just acknowledge information. Good for adding knowledge to the conversation. Avoids over-investigation and wasting tokens<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;y\/n&#8221; &#8212; You can also use this as a preface too to avoid slop (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/llm-quips-for-less-slop\/\">https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/llm-quips-for-less-slop\/<\/a>). Helps keeps agents on task to actually answer your question. <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I use these short prefaces to reduce AI frustration:<\/p>\n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/llm-prefaces-for-less-frustration\/\" title=\"LLM prefaces for less frustration\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">LLM prefaces for less frustration<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[89],"class_list":["entry","author-showmewhatyougot","post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-technical","tag-llm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crccheck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}