Background Knowledge on a Topic

ResearchStudy

Set the purpose and depth, and get the key concepts of a topic and how they connect.

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Give me background knowledge on .

- Purpose: 
- Depth wanted: 
- Output:  key concepts, with a brief explanation of how they relate

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Compared with asking the same thing without the length and format lines.estimate

Estimated output tokens

700

Asked loosely

180

This prompt

Energy (Wh)

1.215

Asked loosely

0.423

This prompt

Tokens estimated from characters; energy measured by Jegham et al. 2025.

What that saves

15.8 Wh · 5.54 gCO₂e · 74 mL — assuming 20 uses a day — the global average is 3.7 (Chatterji et al. 2025)

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Reported backfire — Specifying output lengthSpecifying a length longer than needed backfires (a 34% increase in 11% of scenarios)

Where these figures come from

Published figures for the rule itself — not what this prompt saves.

Specifying output length

38.7%mean reduction · 95% CI 29.7–47.7%

Podder et al. 2026 BP#5 · 18 use cases / 57 prompts

by modelGPT-4o 35%Command R+ 49%Mistral-7B 32%

Reduced in every scenario. No backfire reported