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  "$type": "site.standard.document",
  "path": "/t/prompt-engineering-showcase-your-best-practical-llm-prompting-hacks/1267113?page=4#post_68",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-05T09:29:38.000Z",
  "site": "https://community.openai.com",
  "textContent": "Instead of asking the model to “explain X,” I use a system message like:\n\n“You are an educational assistant explaining a culturally unfamiliar concept to a beginner with zero prior context.\nYou must avoid jargon, assume no background knowledge, and anchor explanations to familiar analogies.”\n\nThen the user prompt only asks for _one layer_ at a time (e.g., names only, then structure, then context.\n\nAnother small but effective trick:\nIf I need the explanation to stay concrete, I explicitly ban abstractions in the prompt:“Do not use metaphor, philosophy, or historical background unless explicitly asked.”\n\nThis dramatically reduces the model’s tendency to over-explain or drift into theory, especially for educational outputs.",
  "title": "Prompt Engineering Showcase: Your Best Practical LLM Prompting Hacks"
}