>I mean: If there was something you could add to the prompt to consistently increase performance why isn't it in the system prompt already?

I think about this a lot. So far I think we are mostly just being gaslit. That we can influence the AI to be better with a few encouraging words and role playing, actually seems absurd. Maybe there is some element of randomness introduced there or something. All these extra MD files don't seem to do nearly as much for results as people believe they do.