Mixed Tone Instructions Make Output Read Schizophrenic
"Professional but friendly, formal but warm" gives the model two voices to average. Fix: pick one primary tone, anchor it with an example, demote the rest to mechanical rules.
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"Professional but friendly, formal but warm" gives the model two voices to average. Fix: pick one primary tone, anchor it with an example, demote the rest to mechanical rules.
"Be warm and conversational, return strict JSON" pulls in two directions. Pick one, scope warmth to prose fields, or split into two passes.
Your image series starts looking like six different artists made it. Here is the anchor-and-lock workflow that pulls a Midjourney, SDXL, or Flux set back to one voice.
Tone, voice, or format changes turn over turn even though the prompt is identical. Convert soft style descriptions into measurable rules the model can self-check.