Anyone figured out how to restore Markdown formatting on the o3/o4-mini models released today? For o1, the docs pointed to prepending “Formatting re-enabled” to the Developer message. Despite prepending “Formatting re-enabled\n” at the beginning of the request, o3 and o4-mini output flat text. Ex…

These AI models have been busting the Playground for a while also. I first reversed your screenshots back to an inferred question. Then I go after the one that looks more of a challenge: o3. I give it the most logical instructional lines for a system message. How’d it do? [The image shows a bul…

Do you mean this? Developer message: “always answer in markdown” [A screenshot of a text editor interface displaying tips for studying, including setting clear goals and creating a study schedule. (Captioned by AI)]

Hmm. Thanks for the help, but let’s see if there’s an official response, since I’m quoting the official OpenAI doc for re-enabling markdown for o1. The [official doc]( https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/reasoning-best-practices#how-to- prompt-reasoning-models-effectively) says: Markdown form…

Any “official answer” is no answer. I tried. [image] O3-mini emitting undocumented format markdown alternative, bad in Playground How about a heads up documenting the “markdown alternative”, and translations one must do to get a useful product from the AI? We can just have gpt-4.5-preview be …

Were you able to figure this out - for awhile, I felt like this worked, but now it doesn’t seem to be doing so.

`o3` / `o4-mini` Restore Markdown Formatting

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aprendendo.next April 17, 2025, 12:44am 3

Do you mean this?

Developer message: “always answer in markdown”

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`o3` / `o4-mini` Restore Markdown Formatting

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