Comment by ianbicking

I often encounter fixation, and that would be my immediate thought: negative commands can often cause the LLM to fixate on a term or idea. My first thought would be to try positive examples and avoid a negative command entirely.

If you spent that much time I'm sure you tried this and other things, so maybe even that isn't enough. (Though I assume if you ask for a JSON/function call response with the API that you'd do fine...?)