Year-End/New-Year Party Planning
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Give headcount, budget and vibe, and get a venue, the order of events and two activity ideas.
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Plan a year-end party for . - Attendees: - Budget: - Desired vibe: - Output: venue, running order (greeting-meal-activity-closing), and activity ideas
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What this prompt does
Compared with asking the same thing without the length and format lines.estimate
Estimated output tokens
700
Asked loosely
700
This prompt
Energy (Wh)
1.215
Asked loosely
1.215
This prompt
Tokens estimated from characters; energy measured by Jegham et al. 2025.
A shorter answer, but the same energy band — the measurements are per band.
Reported backfire — Specifying output lengthSpecifying a length longer than needed backfires (a 34% increase in 11% of scenarios)
Reported backfire — Asking for several options at onceAn increase of over 50% in 9% of scenarios. Don't use it on questions with one right answer
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
Asking for several options at once
36%mean reduction · 95% CI 25–47%
Podder et al. 2026 BP#1 · 22 use cases / 71 prompts
by modelGPT-4o 50%Command R+ 44%Mistral-7B 39%