I recently had a bug where I was sometimes sending the literal text "null " right in front of the most important part of my prompt. This caused Claude 3 Sonnet

I recently had a bug where I was sometimes sending the literal text "null " right in front of the most important part of my prompt. This caused Claude 3 Sonnet to give the 'ignore' command in cases where it should have used one of the other JSON commands I gave it. I have an ignore command so that it will wait when the user isn't finished speaking. Which it generally judges okay, unless it has 'null' in there. The nice thing is that I have found most of the problems with the LLM response were just indications that I hadn't finished debugging my program because I had something missing or weird in the prompt I gave it.