Across five LLMs, prompt format effects are real but model- and scale-specific; instruction-following collapses by 80 rules, and context pressure causes refusal, not hallucination.
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Prompt Design at Scale: How Format, Instruction Count, and Context Length Shape Instruction Adherence and Hallucination in Large Language Models
Across five LLMs, prompt format effects are real but model- and scale-specific; instruction-following collapses by 80 rules, and context pressure causes refusal, not hallucination.