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Ask HN: Are there any best practices for getting LLMs to return *only* code?
1 points by iknownthing 579 days ago
When you ask some of the popular LLMs to generate code it seems like by default it returns something like "Sure!, here is the code below python```<some_python_code>```" but what if you only want the <some_python_code> part? I managed to make it work by including some example outputs in the prompt but I was wondering if there was a best practice for this?
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Did you try telling it in the prompt: “Show me only the code I have requested in a markdown code block”?