One point to add to about influence. Many users only consider the tokens containing letters and ignore the punctuation. I find that in certain situations the punctuation, especially periods (.) have more influence than words. I have removed a single period from a prompt and seen an entirely different completion. In other words the period was being understood as the end of the first instruction and the next sentence as a new instruction and did both as separate instructions, removing the period it considered only one instruction with more detail.
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