7 Characters That Fix Sloppy Prompts Most people never type a single one of these — and their prompts suffer for it. `#` sections the model respects. `*` rules it works under. `" "` fences your text off from your instructions. `[ ]` slots you reuse. `---` a hard line between instructions and content. `|` a table you paste straight into a spreadsheet. Stack them and a sloppy prompt turns into an instruction the model can't misread. All 9 slides attached — save this one. Which one are you sleeping on? 👇