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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