This definitely isn’t standard prompting — as far as I know, nobody was aware of this technique until I found it this past week. Its precedent is the “format tr

This definitely isn’t standard prompting — as far as I know, nobody was aware of this technique until I found it this past week. Its precedent is the “format trick” that Boris Power (at OpenAI) showed me, which is essentially my “instruction templates” but where the only template form is an uninformative numbered list. The trick is used purely as a way to consistently format the output to multi-part tasks without providing fully worked examples. As far as I know, it’s never been extended to contextually informative templates, or to achieve code/document synthesis, as I’ve done here. An example of the “format trick”, roughly as Boris described it to me, though in OpenAI’s examples the answers were simply numbered: https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1556729629263933440?s=21&t=s4JVKNOb4xONEQqT3nXlXQ https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1556729629263933440?s=21... If someone at OpenAI corrects me and says they’ve known about my method, I’ll stop claiming to have discovered it.