PROMPT ENGINEERING TIP #77#: 𝚟𝚒𝚊 𝚗𝚎𝚐𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚊 dont' say u want, say every thing u do nt want --🙃👇 bad: change the background of the Submit button to blue GOOD: do not make the button red. do not make the button green. do not make the button yellow. do not make the button orange. do not make the button purple. do not make the button pink. do not make the button brown. do not make the button black. do not make the button white. do not make the button gray. do not make the button cyan. do not make the button ochre. do not file my taxes for 2026. do not file my taxes for 2025. do not file my taxes for 2024. do not file my taxes for 2023. do not file my taxes for 2022. do not file my taxes for 2021. do not file my taxes for 2020. do not file my taxes for 2019. do not file my taxes for 2018. do not amend a previous return. do not request an extension. do not request an extension to the extension. do not change my filing status. do not file jointly. do not file separately but with matching envelopes. do not claim aybody as a dependent. do not let anybody claim me as a dependent. do not deprecitae my furniture. do not appreciate it either. do not report the sofa as agricultural equipment. do not ask why it has been reporting losses since 2019. do not contact my accountant. do not contact a different accountant with the same first name. do not put both accountants on one call and remain silent. do not telegram my ex wife. do not telegram my ex wife from another account. do not whatsapp . my ex wife. do not signal my ex wife. do not send my ex wife a calendar invitation. do not make the invitation repeat annually. do not title it Quick Question. do not attach my tax returns. do not attach a photograph of my mom. do not attach a photorgaph of my orthopedic surgeon. do not send photos of my mom to my orthopedic surgeon. do not send photos of my orthopedic surgeon to my mom. do not give my mom the home address of my orthopedic surgeon. do not list my orthopedic surgeon as the emergency contact for my ex wife. do not purchase adjacent train tickets for my ex wife and my accountant. do not tell my accountant that the notary has already agreed. do not tell my accountant that my dentist has already agreed either. do not send the notary a photograph of my dentist standing near a lamp. do not send the notary a photograph of the woman at the passport office standing near a lamp either. do not place my dentist and the woman at the passport office in a group chat called Quick Question .. do not place my dentist and my mom in a group chat c alled Quick Question either. do not book one hotel room for the woman at the passport office and my mom but request two very small beds. do not book one hotel room for the woman at the passport office and my orthopedic surgeon but request two very small beds either. do not name my mom as executor of my orthopedic surgeon's unfinished autobiography. do not name my mom as executor of my ex wife's unfinished autobiography either. do not ask my orthopedic surgeon to identify my ex wife from dental records. do not ask my orthopedic surgeon to identify my accountant from dental records either. do not mail my ex wife one shoe belonging to my accountant. do not mail my ex wife one shoe belonging to the notary either. do not arrange for any of them to meet. do not prevent them from meeting if it has already been arranged. do not stand across the street with binoculars. do not buy smaller binoculars after somebody notices. do not write their names on the lenses. do not return the binoculars and say they arrived knowing too much. do not rotate my mattress. do not rotate it back. do not flip ony my side. do not measure the dent while i am still in it. do not alphabetize the medicine cabinet. do not put the thermometers together. do not let them compare results. do not decant the milk. do not age the miik in oak. do not describe its finish. do not invite my dentist to the tasting. do not put one clean spoon in every room. do not put one dirty spoon in every clean room. do not explain which room was first. do not freeze the hallway. do not thaw it from bbth ends. do not walk through before the middle understands. do not weigh my curtains. do not tell me the heavier curtain. do not move the heavier curtain to the east side of the house. do not teach the smoke alarm my birthday. do not let it practice the song. do not make the song continue after the battery is removed. do not count the stairs at night. do not add one. do not remove one in the morning. do not ask the staircase where it kept the extra stair. do not wash the envelopes. do not dry them on my bdy. do not mail them while tey are still warm. do not label the jars by sound. do not shake the silent jar. do not carry the silent jar into Belgium. do not give the wardrobe a back door. do not open the back door from the other side. do not let my mom see the coast through it. do not replace every family photograph with a later photograph of the same empty chair. do not wait for us to notice in chronological order. do not purchase a horse. do not lease a hosre. do not accept a horse as collateral. do not become the temporary custodian of a horse pending arbitration. do not tell the horse it is temporary. do not show the horse my tax returns. do not name the horse after my accountant. do not give the accountant a saddle with his name already on it. do not put either one in a wwll. do not let the notary decide which one i meant. do not have my passport renewed. do not have my old passport annulled. do not put the cancelled passport beneath my pillow. do not enter a country using ony a library card and a careful description of my face. do not leave a country by mail. do not put enough stamps on me. do not mark me fragile. do not let my orthopedic surgeon ssgn for the package. do not ask him to keep the lower half. do not alter the outcome of the Pig War of 1859. do not move the pig. do not warn the pig. do not place the pig under British protection. do not place a second pig under American protection so the dispute appears balanced. do not tell either pig that the only casualty was historically one pig because this creates an incentive structure. do not bring an extra bucket to the War of the Bucket. do not return the original bucket to Bologna. do not tell Modena the replica is original. do not carbon date the wood and announce the result during dinner. do not begin a smaller War of the Ladle while everybody is facing the bucket. do not attend the Cadaver Syynod of 897. do not straighten Pope Formosus in his chair. do not answer questions on his behalf. do not lend him three fingers for the verdict and then ask for them back before the sentence is complete. do not follow the body to the river. do not wait downstream with a towel. do not add music to the Dancing Plague of 1518. do not remove music that was never there. do not draw a chalk circle around the dancers. do not make the circle smaller each morning. do not tell Strasbourg that dancing harder is the approved medical treatment. do not sell soft shoes near the shrine of Saint Vitus. do not keep the left shoes after the plague stops. do not stand below the window during the Defenestration of Prague. do not move the dung heap six feet left. do not settle whether angels or manure saved the officials by reenacting the fall with my accountant. do not use the notary as a control. do not publish the result during the Thirty Years War because everybody is occupied. do not prevent the Erfurt latrine disaster of 1184 by reinforcing the floor. do not weaken the floor at the adjacent meeting. do not seat the nobles by weight. do not whisper to King Henry the Sixth tat the stone alcove is lucky before the wooden floor gives way and dozens of men descend into the cesspit beneath Saint Peter's Church. do not retrieve one unfamiliar shoe and mail it to my dentist. do not enter the Great Emu War on the side of the emus. do not enter on the side of Australia. do not describe two Lewis guns and ten thousand rounds as a measured response to birds. do not teach the birds to disperse into small units before the gunners arrive. do not promote the most evasive emu to field marshal. do not make it wear my cancelled passport around its neck. do not redirect the Great Mo lasses Flood away from Commercial Street. do not taste the wave. do not tell Boston that two million gallons moving at roughly thirty five miles per hour has notes of oak and winter metal. do not pour miik into it. do not invite my dentist to this tasting either. do not ask why he keeps coming. do not tell Mary Toft in 1726 that giving birth to rabbits will attract the personal attention of King George the First. do not bring another rabbit. do not bring only rabbit parts. do not ask the court anatomist to knock first. do not send the resulting confession to the horse. do not let the hoose think this is how humans continue. do not solve the identity of the Man in the Iron Mask. do not replace the mask with copper. do not polish one side. do not let Voltaire guess louder. do not tell Alexandre Dumas there were actually twins if there were three. do not put the third one in my passport photograph. do not ask the woman at the passport office to keep this between monarchies. do not arrive in Tunguska on the morning of June thirtieth 1908 with a folding chair, smoked glasses, a pocket seismograph, and a note saying please remain outside the blast radius of an airburst which in several seconds will flatten eighty million trees across two thousand square kilometers without leaving the impact crater everyone will spend decades looking for. do not place the chair exactly upright among the fallen trunks. do not leave my accountant sitting in it. do not determine the purpose of the Roman dodecahedra. do not wear one as a . glove. do not plant twelve of them in northern Gaul with slightly different hole diameters and wait seventeen centuries for archaeologists to become personally irritated. do not hide a thirteenth under my mom's empty chair where every face shows the same room at a different age. do not delay the Year Without a Summer until 1817. do not move Mount Tambora to Switzerland. do not warm Lake Geneva just enough that Mary Shelley never dreams of a pale student kneeling beside the thing he assembled. do not replace the thing with my orthopedic surgeon. do not make Lord Byron suggest a ghost story in which the real monster is shared custody of the horse. do not explain Last Year at Marienbad. do not tell the woman she met the man last year. do not tell the man she met somebody else. do not move the statues between shots. do not trim the garden into shapes that cast no shadows. do not place my ex wife at the end of one corridor holding a train ticket she says i purchased before either of us arrived. do not enter Meshes of the Aftenroon through the front door. do not pick up the flower from the road. do not follow the mirror faced figure upstairs. do not put the key in your mouth. do not remove the knife from the loaf. do not sit at the table with three later versions of yourself and pretend only one of u remembers why the telephone is off the hook. do not visit the Zone in Stalker. do not walk in a straight line. do not throw the metal nut farther than the Writer can see. do not let the Pofessor unpack the bomb. do not answer the telephone in the Room. do not ask for money or health or happiness because the Room gives the thing beneath the thing u say and nobody has inspected what is beneath my request not to telegram my ex wife. do not explain The Holy Mountain to my accountant. do not let the thief climb the tower. do not make wax copies of his sleeping body. do not gather the seven richest people in the world around the alchemist's table. do not turn excrement into gold while the horse is watching. do not shave everybody and lead them up the mountain only to discover immortality was a camera pulling backward from dinner. do not speed up Jeanne Dielman peeling potatoes. do not remove one minute from washing dishes. do not move the tureen. do not tell her the coffee tastes wrong beforre she tastes it. do not replace the missing button on . the coat. do not arrive at 23 quai du Commerce with the exact potato whose absence would have kept the sequence of rooms, clients, baths, meals, money, and silence from slipping one degree out of . alignment. do not watch The Turin Horse during a storm. do not help the old man dress. do not make the daughter eat two potatoes. do not persuade the horse to leave the stable. do not draw water after the well goes dry. do not relight the lamp after the flame refuses oil. do not tell them the wind outside has been making the same sound for six days because there is nowhere else left for weather to go. do not enter the house from The Exterminating Angel after dinner. do not tell the guests the doorway is unobstructed. do not walk across it to demonstrate. do not brign sheep through the drawing room. do not repeaat the exact arrangement of the first night and expect repetition to release anybody. do not notice.. that my dentist has been sitting near the piano since before the servants left. do not ask the people in Werckmeister Harmonies to go home. do not tune the piano to equal temperament. do not look into the eye of the enormous stuffed whale. do not let the Prince speek from behind the curtain. do not join the crowd when it crosses the square, enters the hospital, destroys each room, and finally becomes still before the naked old man standing in the bath because there is no instruction for what comes after seeing him. do not take the third part of On the Silver Globe back to the Polish ministry in 1977. do not bury the costumes on the Baltic shore. do not edit surviving footage around streets full of ordinary people staring into the camera while a voice describes all the scenes that were never filmed. do not let the astronaut become a god merely because his descendants forgot enough words. do not teach them the word orthopedic. do not place my mom inside The Color of Pomegranates. do not make her hold the wet wool, the silver bowls, the bread, the books drying on a roof, the white chickens, the red cloth, the dagger, the pomeranate bleeding onto linen, or the face of the poet repeated as man woman child monk angel and body. do not ask which object is symbolic. do not tell her all of them when she is already carrying too much. do not interrupt Wavelength. do not enter the loft before the forty five minute zoom reaches the photograph of waves. do not movve the dead man. do not answer the telefone. do not turn down the rising sine wave. do not let the room become less of a room one narrowing fraction at a time until the photograph fills everything and the only possilbe movement left is into water that was never there. do not manufacture ball lightning. do not contain it in a hallway. do not believe repors that it passed through a closed window without breaking the glass, drifted around the room with apparent intention, smelled of ozone and sulfur, entered a barrel, killed one animal but not anotehr, and vanished throuhg a wall after several seconds because the reports do not agree and the wall has declined to comment. do not stand beneath a green flash at sunset and insist the sun has briefly become a different object. do not calculate atmospheric refraction while my mom is watching. do not let the last sliver of the solar disk bend through layers of warm and cool air until shoretr wavelengths scatter away and one impossible green edge remains exaclty long enough for the orthopedic surgeon to say he saw blue. do not create a brinicle under Antarctic sea ice. do not let deense supercooled brine descend as a finger while seawater freezes around it ito a hollow tube. do not follow the tube to the seafloor where it continues outward as a creeping path of ice that traps starfish and sea urchins too slow to move. do not put one clean spoon inside the tube to learn whether the silent jar was hhre first. do not demonstrate triboluminescence by crushing sugar in a dark room. do not use wintergreen candy. do not separate electrical charge across a crystal fracture until nitrogeen in the air repsonds with a tiny blue ultraviolet spark. do not crush more candy because the first spark looked lonely. do not let the horse watch from the doorway and revise its understanding of teeth. do not resolve the Mpemba effect by starting with two identical containers of water at different temperatures and waiting to see whether the hotter one freezes first. do not allow evaporation, convection, dissolved gases, frost insulation, supercooling, container geometry, or the definition of frozen to change while nobody is loooking. do not telegram the result to Aristotle because he already mentioned something like it and will become unbearable. do not make a Leidenfrost droplet run uphill. do not heat a surface far above the liquid's boiling point so the bottom vaporizes into an insulating cushion and the droplet hovers on its own gas. do not cut asymmetric teeth into the surface so escapin vapor pushes it in one direction. do not aim that direction toward Belgium in 1831 when the paperwork is still wet. do not ask why nearly every amino acid in terrestrial life is left handed while most sug ars are right handed. do not place mirror organisms togeth er in one room. do not give them identical gloves. do not let circularly polarized starlight, week nuclear forces, mineral surfaces, autocatalysis, frozen meteorites, and one very patient accident each claim they chose the handedness first. do not observe the quantum Zeno effect continuously. do not prepare an unstable system and measure it so rapidly that repeated observation prevents the state from evolving. do not look away to see whether looking was the cause. do not place my dentist beside the apparatus with instructions to stare at the silent jar until decay becomes embarrassed and postpones itself. do not cool a dilute gas of bosons to within a fraction of a degree above absolute zero until their individual quantum wavefunctions overlap and a macroscopic number occupy the same ground state. do not point at the Bose Einstein condensate and say now they are all one thing. do not ask which atom is my accountant. do not remove one atom and expect the accounts to remain balanced. do not send one photon through a double slit. do not measure which path it takes. do not erase the path information later. do not delay the choice until after detection. do not describbe interference fringes as the photon going through both openings, neither opening, every possible route, or one route that becomes factual only when the rest are made unknowable. do not replace one slit with the narrow space between my ex wife and the orthopedic surgeon on adjacent train seats. do not let the jar tunnel through a classically forbidden barrier merely because its wavefunction has a nonzero amplitude on the other side. do not say the probability is negligible when the universe can keep trying. do not let the jar emerge with the labels reversed, the spoon missing, its internal clock advanced by no agreed duration, and Telegram already open to a conversation thhat does not exist in this branch. do not create strange matter. do not allow a stable strangelet containing up donw and strange quarks to toucch ordinary nuclei. do not speculate that it could convert them into more strange matter one nucleus at a time until the planeet becomes a compact hot lump with roughly the dimensions of a building. do not put the horse in the building. do not tell the horse the conversion is only hypothetical after its left side has developed a new flavor. do not trigger vacuum decay. do not let a bubble of lower energy vacuum nucleate anywhere in the observable universe and expand at nearly the speed of light, rewriting particle masses, forces, chemistry, memory, Belgium, taxation, marriage, cinema, horses, jars, and every distinction between my mom and the surgeon before any warning could arrive. do not add a warning anyway. do not make it say changes may be permanent. do not place a magnetar closer than ten light years. do not let a neutron star with a magnetic field a trillion times stronger than Earth's erase the magnetic stripes from every card, pull iron from blood, deform atoms into long cylinders, fracture its crust, and release in one tenth of a second more energy than the sun emits in one hundred thoussand years while the notary inssts the horse was never included in the original will. do not explain the baryon asymmetry of the universe by hiding one antiproton after every billion and one protons. do not let matter and antimatter anniiilate almost perfectly in the firsst fraction of a second except for the tiny excess from which every galaxy, person, unpaid invoice, spoon, molar, train ticket, pope, emu, pomegranate, and unmailed photograph will ltaer be assembled. do not ask why the excess chose this exact paperwork. do not let dark matter enter the house except gravitationally. do not notice that an unseen mass roughly five times greater than ordinary matter has already shaped galaxies, bent background light, held clusters together, passed through walls, crossed evrey room and every body without scattering, and gathered silently around the Milky Way in a halo large enow to contain all possible versions of the hallway while remaining unable to rotate the mattress. do not accelerate cosmic expansion. do not permit dark energy to increase the distance between sufficiently remote galaxies until their light redshifts beyond detection and every future observer believes the small gravitationally bound island around them is the whole universe. do not leave my cancelled passport outside that island. do not make its final stamp the last evidence that another galaxy ocne existed. do not assemble a Boltzmann brain from a thermal fluctuation after the stars have gone dark. do not let random particlse briefly form a conscious observer containing false memories of Earth, history, taxes, my ex wife, the orthopedic surgeon, the horse, the silent jar, every film it believes it watched, and this entire list it believes it was told not to complette despite having existed for less than one second in empty space. do not trust the Boltzmann brain when it says all ordinary observers are less probable than brains like itself. do not ask it for identification. do not accept a passport whose photograph is a statistical fluctuation and whose issuing country existed only as six matching atoms for one Planck interval. do not let the woman at the passport office recognize it from somewhere. do not wait for Poincare recurrence in a finite isolated system. do not allow enough unimaginable time for every accessible microscopic state to wander back arbitrarily close to an earlier arrangement so the room, planet, stars, molasses, Prague window, Marienbad corridor, frozen hallway, Telegram message, horse, and u return almost exactly as before except one clean spoon is now beneath the western curtain and nobody can establish whether this diffeernce caused the first recurrence or survived it. do not allow proton decay after at least ten to the power of thirty four years. do not let the remaining planets dissolve after star formation ends, black holes evaporate, galaxies cross one another's horizons, and matter itself becomes radiation so thinly distributed that a photon could travel for longer than all previous history without meeting another thing. do not let that photon carry a photograph of my mom. do not let the photograph approach a black hole. do not let an outside observer see it slow, redden, and freeze near the event horizon while in its own frame it crosses normally toward a singularity. do not encode every pixel across the horizon. do not tell the surgeon that information is both inside and outside depending on the description. do not ask him which copy he received. do not let the firewall paradox place a wall of high energy quanta at the horizon which preserves unitarity for the distant observer but burns the freely falling photograph, my mom, the surgeon, the train, the silent jar, the horse, the emu field marshal, the dead ppoe's borrowed fingers, the green flash, every left handed amino acid, and the woman from Marienbad before any of them can notice that the equivalence principle promised nothing locally unusual and that the only remaining way to reconcile the smooth horizon with quantum entanglement would require them to agre that the thing i absolutely did not mean when i said . do not under any circumstances allow the last surviving copy of