What is the basic minimum while you prompt

Reddit r/artificial / 5/2/2026

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The author finds that Claude performs best when prompts are carefully crafted, but they feel they are not doing it well enough to get reliable results.
They question whether advanced prompt techniques (such as role-play and adding constraints) are necessary for every use case, or whether skipping them significantly changes outcomes.
They express skepticism about paid online courses for prompting, since they fear the training investment may not translate into better real-world results.
They note that prompting effectiveness can vary across different models, making it hard to generalize what works.
They ask the community for the most effective “basic minimum” prompting approach that reduces hallucinations and avoids overly agreeable or biasing responses from the AI.

I have realised Claude answers as best as you prompt it.
And I suck at it. 😂
I have tried role playing you are top 1% etc and adding constraints but I am not sure if each prompt requires this kind of effort or if I actually skip it will the outcomes be drastically different.
You can’t tell if you don’t try.
But who has the time to check both versions all the time.

I am skeptical of online courses. I don’t want to invest time only to realise this doesn’t work.

Also based on what I have been reading things change from model to model.

Just wanted to know from the community What is the best way to get your prompt to work for you with the least amount of hallucination and ai agreeing with you?

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