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druskacik on Nov 16, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: Convert any screenshot into clean HTML co...

What do you mean by defensive prompting?

tauntz on Nov 16, 2023 [–]

Probably prompts like "don't do X and don't do Y or I'll kill this bunny".

Tyr42 on Nov 16, 2023 | [–]

I think that's crossed the line into offensive prompting ;)

Defensive prompting is the general "don't do X" parts though. Negative prompting would be amother name for it.

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