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Developer finds bug causing LLM system prompts to be silently truncated

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A developer encountered an issue where their bot's system prompt was being unexpectedly truncated, leading to inconsistent behavior and loss of critical instructions. The problem stemmed from a character limit that cut off parts of the persona file and other essential directives on every message. After identifying the cause, the developer implemented a fix by reordering prompt components to protect vital instructions at the head of the prompt and adjusting the character cap, eventually redesigning the system to throw an error when the budget is exceeded rather than silently truncating. AI

IMPACT Highlights potential issues with LLM prompt management and character limits, impacting developers building AI applications.

RANK_REASON Developer describes a specific bug encountered while using an LLM service and their solution.

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Developer finds bug causing LLM system prompts to be silently truncated

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  1. dev.to — LLM tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Motzumoto ·

    my bot's system prompt was cut off in the middle on every message

    <p>Akiko's persona file is 10,353 characters. the cap i put on the system prompt was 9,000. i didn't do that math until she started rambling.</p> <p>the symptom was weird. she'd answer a simple question with a paragraph about rain on a window. separately i wanted to check that pr…

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