Ask HN: Are new lines useless with LLMs?

1 points by saliagato ↗ HN
To LLMs experts, I'm wondering if new lines (\n) are useless when prompting LLMs like GPT-4.

They are indeed very token-consuming, so knowing if it's possible to omit them is nice.

Of course I'm wondering about generation performances if omitting

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I couldn't understand your subject line because of a typo. \n is known as a "newline"; "new lines" could be anything, but not \n.