Formatting prompts

Proper formatting of prompts plays a key role in enabling AI systems to process complex tasks in a more structured, clear, and precise manner. A clear structure makes the information content easier for the AI to understand, and formatted prompts are also easier for human users to comprehend.

Important Markdown syntax for prompt formatting

To make prompts clear, we recommend using basic Markdown elements (Markdown Cheat Sheet).

Headings

For structuring into topic areas.

# First heading

## Second heading

### Third heading

Bold, italics

To highlight important words or instructions.

• Bold (**Text**)
• Italics (*italics*)
• Bold + italics (***boldanditalics***)

Ordered lists

1. Point 1
2. Point 2
3. Point 3
    3.1 Point 3.1

Unordered lists

- Text here
- Text here too
- More text here
    - And text here as well

Tables

Important:

• | at the beginning and end
• at least (---) 3x for the delimitation of the header row
• ensure the same number of cells in all rows

| Header row text 1 | Header row text 2 | Header row text 3 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Value1 Row 1 | Value2 Row 1 | Value3 Row 1 |
| Value1 Row 2 | Value2 Row 2 | Value3 Row 2 |
| Value1 Row 3 | Value2 Row 3 | Value3 Row 3 |

Paragraphs

Use blank lines to clearly separate content.

Explain the following topic to me: AI

Answer as if I were 12 years old.

Example

# Create a summary

Please summarize the following text in **three bullet points**:

- Focus on the most important statements
- Use **objective language**
- Avoid repetition

**Text:**
> The text to be analyzed is here.