I once saw a list of instructions being passed around that were intended to be tacked on to any prompt: e.g. "don't speculate, don't estimate, don't fill in knowledge gaps"

But you'd think it would make more sense to add that into the weights rather than putting it in your prompt and hoping it works. As it stands, it sometimes feels like making a wish on the monkey paw and trying to close a bunch of unfortunate cursed loopholes.