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Ask HN: What is a good format for a tool to report data to a LLM?

4•michaelmure•2h ago
For CLI tools, humans like visually organized text possibly with colors or TUIs. Machines likes tabs-separated tabular data, or json and similar.

What's the equivalent for LLMs for tabular or structured data? What makes them grasp the data easily and efficiently?

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kooi•2h ago
Standard disclosure of "I'm no LLM expert".

Could tokens be pre-embedded and saved? Suppose you're transferring a context to another agent. Currently I just copy/paste, tell the other agent to reference a .md file.

What is I could get a "compressed" binary file containing the context in the embedding space. Then the other agent can consume that and continue on it's merry way.

michaelmure•59m ago
I'm asking this because as I wrote a new CLI tool I picked json as the recommended output format for LLMs. I noticed though that they easily get lost and generally consume a lot of tokens to analyse the output. I'm sure it would work well when the LLM is trained for and already know what to expect, but that doesn't work for a new tool.

So, what's the natural language for them?