Prompt Design at Scale: How Format, Instruction Count, and Context Length Shape Instruction Adherence and Hallucination in Large Language Models

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Ce qui s'est passé

Study tests how instruction count, format, and context length affect LLM compliance and hallucination across five models using a controlled synthetic corpus.

Pourquoi ça compte

Matters for engineers building production systems who need empirical guidance on prompt design choices currently made with little evidence.

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Results are model-specific and sometimes contradict expectations; markdown showed no consistent advantage, and token overhead varies by format and context length.