# GPT-4.1 Prompting Guide | OpenAI Cookbook

<https://cookbook.openai.com/examples/gpt4-1_prompting_guide>

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## What Jamie wrote

The prompt examples here are great references and highlight how specific (pedantic?) you need to be with the LLMs. I’m super interested in agents at the moment and the agent prompts are much more specific than anything I've been exploring.

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