What is 'role prompting' and how does it affect Claude's responses?
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Role prompting is like casting Claude in a part — 'You are a senior security engineer reviewing this code.' The role shapes vocabulary, depth of expertise, and response style.
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Role prompting assigns Claude a specific persona or expert identity via the system prompt or user message. For example: 'You are an experienced tax attorney...', 'Act as a Python debugging expert...', or 'You are a friendly customer service representative for...'. This shapes Claude's vocabulary, level of expertise, tone, and approach to problems. It's one of the most widely used prompting techniques. Option A describes multi-agent orchestration, not role prompting. Option C describes access control, unrelated. Option D is nonsensical HTTP header terminology.