The first piece of information you feed into a prompt disproportionately influences what comes out, much like how the first number in a negotiation shapes the final price. AI exhibits this cognitive bias too, making your opening statement more powerful than it initially seems.
Anchoring bias in AI describes the tendency for a model to weight the first information or framing it receives in a conversation heavily, shaping all subsequent responses even when later context should override it.
Understanding this effect helps you deliberately craft opening statements that set accurate anchors, and it explains why a single poorly worded first message can send an entire conversation in the wrong direction despite your best follow-up corrections.
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