How "force" the API to really follow all the instructions?

@anon22939549 Thanks, but I’ve tried using tokens instead of characters and the results are much worse. It doesn’t seem to know what tokens are at all. For example, with a 5 token limit, it gives me long phrases (even more than 20 tokens).

At least with characters I think it understands the concept (it makes shorter phrases and complies with the limit approx. 50% of the time), even if it doesn’t really count them or don’t “obbey” for some other reason.