Compress Prompts With Abbreviation Guides
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Compress Prompts With Abbreviation Guides

April 6, 2026
For repeated API calls, define an abbreviation guide in your system prompt (e.g., 'usr=user, msg=message, resp=response') then use abbreviations throughout. This can reduce prompt token counts by 15-25% on verbose instruction sets.
Category: Token Optimization
Difficulty:advanced

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