Prompting delimiters and JSON style prompting

I had a chat with Gemini (and ChatGPT today) about the topic of delimiters and json style prompting. I’m not a fan of <prompt>putting stuff between</prompt> xml tags. It’s just too much typing for me. And since LLMs are supposed to be all about natural language interactions, it feels like it’s defeating the purpose to have to dress up a prompt like that.

So I asked Gemini and ChatGPT about it. Gemini’s response was a little more thorough, so here is that chat.

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Gemini’s ASCII Poop Story

The following is a story generated by AI. I changed not a word of it. It does include some phrases that I wrote in the conversation I was having with it before I requested the story, but for the most part, it’s a creative exercise of the AI, not me. :D

Enjoy, or not! But don’t say you weren’t warned.

Don’t complain to me if you hate it, or hate AI generated images and text, and don’t give me a talking to because you have an anti-AI bias. I don’t care. I will delete your comments.

(I have my own anti-AI bias that’s slowly given way to the fun I keep having with it. I don’t need your complaining, thanks very much.)

But if you want to talk about AI generated writing in a reasonable way that isn’t pooping on my internet home? Yes, please.

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