Split up group project work
Work & EmailStudy
Give who can do what and where the schedule conflicts are, and get a table of roles and a timeline.
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Plan out who does what, and when. - The assignment and deadline: - Who's on the team and what they can do: - Conflicts: - One table of roles and a week-by-week schedule
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What this prompt does
Compared with asking the same thing without the length and format lines.estimate
Estimated output tokens
700
Asked loosely
700
This prompt
Energy (Wh)
1.215
Asked loosely
1.215
This prompt
Token counts are estimated from character counts, not measured. Energy uses the per-band figures measured by Jegham et al. 2025 as published.
A shorter answer, but the same energy band. The measurements are per band, and this much does not cross one.
Reported backfire — Specifying output formatA 78% increase in one GPT-4o scenario. The paper classifies this one as apply-selectively
Where these figures come from
We read the prompt to see whether it carries that instruction. The percentages below are published figures for the rule itself, not a measurement of what this prompt saves.
Specifying output format
49%mean reduction · 95% CI 37–61%
Podder et al. 2026 BP#6 · 14 use cases / 45 prompts
by modelGPT-4o 40%Command R+ 50%Mistral-7B 57%