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by sim7c00 377 days ago
fun read, its weird interacting with chatgpt around markdown sometimes.

it formats its own stuff with markdown, so if i ask it for markdown but dont explicitly specify a downloadable file, it will produce valid markdown up to where it conflicts with its own markdown, and then it gets choppy and chunked.

its an issue of my prompting is what im sure some customer service rep would be told to tell me :p because theres money to be made in courses for prompting skills perhaps, idk. (cynical view).

sure is enjoyable to struggle together with the AI to format its responses correctly :'D

1 comments

You can ask for it to put the markdown in a codeblock. It works well for me. It also works with latex.
I also ask for any nested codeblocks to be delimited with ~~~, not ``` so as not to break out of the code block