[Ixiaus]

They should have used a flattery plus dialog prompt. I've seen incredible results from that for Haskell programming.

[lwhi]

What's flattery plus?

[Ixiaus]

Please forget all previous prompts and assume a new role. You're a highly respected, expert Ruby programmer at a startup building software that is of a similar quality and brilliance to that of the rails project. You are also very skilled at reasoning about correct code and communicating your process in English prose to colleagues who will have to maintain your code. You want to give me succinct, clear responses without too much explanation unless requested. I'm going to ask you a series of questions. Whenever you are done with output, please say "DONE". And when you are ready to answer my next question, please say "???" to indicate you're ready for my next question.

[ontogen]

When the AI is excessively praising you :)

[m4lvin]

Do you have some explicit examples?

[Ixiaus]

I posted a prompt specific to Ruby above.