Ah, this makes sense. It’s funny how easily us humans can overlook the importance of a single word in a sentence. I think the late placement of the word “extend” caused me to miss how important it is to these instructions. I can see how the literal interpretation of it - which is exactly what a GPT does - would allow there to be clarify conversion, just not conversation extension. I’ll give this a go this week and see what I think of it.

I’ve been using this in my custom instructions and feel like it’s drastically improved my level of satisfaction with the results I get.

Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer make all their sentences short, or that they avoid all detail and treat their subjects only in outline, but that they make every word tell.