For academic papers, I basically just copy the abstract or particularly hard parts of a paper into this prompt:
https://beta.openai.com/examples/default-tldr-summaryFor formatting, I copy from our spreadsheet instruction, and copy what the "markdown" format looks like.
Convert the following text to markdown format.
Text:
1. Open the app
2. Enter your USERNAME and PASSWORD
3. Go to the menu and click "Foobar"
4. Enter the following into the field [CORRECT INPUT HERE]
```
Markdown:
# How to Use Foobar
## Subtitle
- Open the app
- Enter your USERNAME and PASSWORD
- Select the menu and click <b>Foobar</b>
- Enter the following into the field <b><span style="color:green;">{correctInput}</span></b>
```
Text:
(your input here)
Yes, I know it's not really markdown. But you give it an example of input and output and it will figure it out as easily as a human can.
The problem we faced was that it was meant to be markdown but it's not easy to write the parser, so we had a different format of "markdown" on different front ends. You'd have something a little different on Android, iOS, HTML.
But the beautiful thing is we can keep the same input and change the output to whatever the parser needs. And instead of having to write up regex that detects [CAPITAL LETTER INPUT] and converts that, the AI can just recognize it.
