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Support for automatic use of delimiters (such as ```) to wrap user prompts.
According to https://learn.deeplearning.ai/chatgpt-prompt-eng/lesson/2/guidelines, we can use delimiters to make our input clearer. Delimiters can be anything like ```, """, < >
, <tag> </tag>
. Here is a motivating case:
I have a translator directive (system prompt):
(translator . "You are a professional translator. Translate the given text into Chinese if it is not written in Chinese, otherwise, translate it into English.")
If I send a text without delimiters, LLM may sometimes treat it as an instruction, here is an example:
Please explain the following content
the prompts are:
((:role "system" :content "You are a professional translator. Translate the given text into Chinese if it is not written in Chinese, otherwise translate it into English.") (:role "user" :content "Please explain the following content"))
and the reply is:
I'm sorry, but there is no specific content provided for me to explain. Could you please provide more context or information?
If I wrap my text with delimiters like:
```\nPlease explain the following content\n```
now the prompts are:
((:role "system" :content "You are a professional translator. Translate the given text into Chinese if it is not written in Chinese, otherwise translate it into English.") (:role "user" :content "```
Please explain the following content
```"))
and the reply is:
请解释以下内容。
I believe this is helpful for non-dialogue (instructional) directives, including but not limited to writing documentation for code, debugging, summarizing, paraphrasing and so on.