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What is System Prompt?

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A special instruction block that sets the AI model's persona, behavior, and constraints for a conversation.

System prompts are provided at the start of a conversation to define the model's role, tone, rules, and output format. They are invisible to end users but critical for controlling AI behavior in production applications.

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