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Text formatting following ChatGPT conventions

Please consider recognizing the same text formatting conventions that ChatGPT does. This will allow bot creators to invoke these conventions when writing prompts, so that the Mevo bot will display nicely formatted text when desired. (For example, I'm working on a complex prompt that guides a teacher through creating a course outline. I'd like the outline to be nicely formatted.)
Below is a list of formatting conventions that ChatGPT recognizes and converts into a more elegant form. I placed this in a prompt in a Mevo bot, and it appears that none of these conventions are currently recognized in Mevo. I see another feature request relating to hyperlinks and images. Implementing the conventions below would address that request plus enable prompt writers to ensure that bot output can handle heading styles; bold, italic, strikethrough, and monospace text; properly bulleted lists; horizontal rules; and code blocks.

#This is heading 1

##This is heading 2

###This is heading 3

This is bold text (this editor on Featurebase is changing my markup... the convention for bold in ChatGPT is an underscore before and after the word or phrase)

This is italic text (again, the editor functions are changing it here. The ChatGPT convention is an asterisk before and after the characters to be italicized.)

This is ~strikethrough text~

This is monospace text

> This  block of text is indented (blockquote)

1. This is an ordered list.

2. This is part of the same list.

3. This is, too.

- This will be a bulleted list.

- This is part of the same list.

- This is, too.

Nice clean horizontal rules are created with dashes, underscores, or asterisks on a line by themselves:

------------------------

_____________________

*********************

Links can be specified like this: [AICoaches](http://aicoaches.io)

Images can be specified like this: 

[Alt text](http://URL.com)

```Code blocks can be set off like this.

Inline code will be formatted as code if it's set off with ` (backtick symbol).

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  • Raj V

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    Jun 25, 2024

    This is a huge deal. The way Mevo outputs GPT response does not respect markdown and creates extremely weird style. Not to mention that it gives wrong information many times especially URL's. Here is an example:

    Yes, here are some listings in Northern Virginia:

    1. Address: 1011 Arlington Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22209

    Date or Open House: New Listing

    Price: $149,900

    Type: Condo For Sale

    Status: Active

    Bedrooms: 0 Beds

    Bathrooms: 1 TOTAL BATH

    Square Feet: 412 SQFT

    URL:

    This is what it should look like - instead - Mero adds a ** before and after each bold. This is a big problem and needs to be fixed.