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You ask for a short table and get three paragraphs back, then a bulleted list next time you ask the exact same thing.
What you'll have at the end
A prompt template that produces the identical format across five separate requests
You need
A chatbot you can message directly, and a request you send it often enough that a changing reply format is actually costing you time.
Not covered
Making the reply arrive as machine-checked data that code can parse without a human glancing at it first is a separate, stronger technique than a written format instruction alone.
Leans on
Fix wrong-format answers with two or three few-shot examples
If a plainly worded format still won't hold after testing, showing the model two or three examples of the exact format usually finishes the job.
Audit a failing prompt against a checklist of common mistakes
If more than one thing about the prompt seems to be going wrong at once, a broader mistake checklist untangles which part is actually broken.
Checked 15 Aug 2026
Part of the Prompt Engineering cookbook