Ideas for a competition entry
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Give the brief, your team strengths and what to avoid, and get five ideas each with its likely hard part.
Fill the blanks and it copies as you filled it
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Come up with ideas.
- What our team is good at:
- Time we have:
- What to avoid:
- Five ideas. One line of description and one line on the likely hard part for each0 of 3 blanks filled · anything left blank copies with its brackets
What this prompt does
Compared with asking the same thing without the length and format lines.estimate
Estimated output tokens
700
Asked loosely
320
This prompt
Energy (Wh)
1.215
Asked loosely
1.215
This prompt
Token counts are estimated from character counts, not measured. Energy uses the per-band figures measured by Jegham et al. 2025 as published.
A shorter answer, but the same energy band. The measurements are per band, and this much does not cross one.
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
We read the prompt to see whether it carries that instruction. The percentages below are published figures for the rule itself, not a measurement of what this prompt saves.
Assigning a role
44%mean reduction · 95% CI 29–59%
Podder et al. 2026 BP#4 · 19 use cases / 61 prompts
by modelGPT-4o 34%Command R+ 50%Mistral-7B 49%
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%