DeepSeek-R1 Prompting: Why You Should Skip the System Prompt

SambaNova's technical documentation for DeepSeek-R1 explicitly advises: remove instructional system prompts and minimize additional wrapper instructions, using zero-shot or single-instruction plain-language prompts in the user message for complex reasoning tasks.

API Config: Omit {"role": "system"}; place all instructions directly inside {"role": "user"}. User Prompt: Design a lock-free concurrent hash map resize algorithm in Rust. Prove how your epoch-based reclamation prevents use-after-free races during concurrent bucket splits.