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Your test looks invalid? In a real scenario, a program would be calling `json.dumps()` or equivalent, and there would be no way to inject an unescaped quotation mark or linebreak into the ChatGPT prompt.

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There's nothing inherently special about quotation marks or newlines, as far as the language model is concerned. With a bit of leadup, you could probably get it to start accepting some other sequence, like <br>, as a line break substitute.

Reinforcement of the response format in various contexts throughout the message have shown to be really effective to me. I specifically use @@@ and &&& as alternative delimiters [0], in the hopes that I'm imbuing the context with more uniqueness, aka something that it won't have seen a million times in training, so that it follows a more specific process.

[0] https://github.com/keybittech/wizapp/blob/main/src/lib/promp...

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