Role Concatenation When Mistral System Prompts Fail

Mistral's prompting documentation states that if you cannot control the system prompt in a given interface, you can still include general context and instructions in the user prompt by concatenating them with the actual query using Markdown or XML tags.

<system_context>You are a senior database administrator. Provide objective measures and exact SQL commands.</system_context> <user_query>Optimize this slow vacuum operation on a 2TB table.</user_query>