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He instructed troops to refrain from direct confrontations with cartels, when possible, and vowed to attend to poverty and other underlying social-economic social forces behind the violence.

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But when participants instructed AI to report the numbers, they were more likely to cheat by phrasing their prompts in a way that would help them maximize their profits.

North Korean soldiers are instructed to kill themselves rather than be taken prisoner, according to South Korea's intelligence service.

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"I am hereby instructing our Department of War to prepare for possible action. If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet."

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For example, you can instruct ChatGPT to “keep replies to 50 words or less unless I say otherwise” or “default to bullet-point-form answers.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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