Question

A developer notices that Claude keeps starting its responses with conversational filler like "Sure! Here's the information you requested:" before providing the actual answer. The application parses only the substantive content and this preamble adds noise. Without changing the underlying request logic, what is the simplest prompt engineering technique to eliminate this introductory text?

Accepted Answer

Prefill the assistant turn with the first words of the desired substantive answer so Claude continues directly from there

Answer

Increase the max_tokens parameter so the preamble is proportionally smaller relative to the full response

Answer

Raise the temperature setting to encourage Claude to vary its opening phrasing

Answer

Add a stop sequence of "Sure!" so generation halts before the filler is produced