Question

A content team needs Claude to process customer reviews. For each review, they want three separate outputs: a sentiment label, a list of mentioned product features, and a suggested one-line reply. When they ask for all three in a single prompt, the outputs are inconsistent — sometimes the reply is missing, and feature lists bleed into the sentiment field. The team wants to improve reliability without switching models. What is the most appropriate approach?

Accepted Answer

Break the task into a prompt chain, where each subtask (sentiment, features, reply) is handled by a dedicated prompt whose output feeds the next stage or is collected independently.

Answer

Raise the temperature so Claude generates more varied outputs and eventually covers all three fields.

Answer

Increase max_tokens so the model has more room to include all three outputs in one response.

Answer

Add a stop sequence after the sentiment label so the model does not continue past the first field.