If you can only work with GPT-3.5 model, the prompt that bumbledraven shared may still produce some explanations and provide no syntax highlighting. To solve this, you can add: "Skip prose. Skip explanation. Answer in a single code block in markdown."

Also, if you're using the playground, I'd recommend keeping the temperature low (I normally set it to 0 for this task). This will prevent any extra information such as test data, from being included. From my experience, setting the prompt I shared earlier as the system prompt produced more consistent results. However, whatever I shared is based on my own trial & error, so I'm not sure if this will work for you/in general.

Q: How do I write a function in JavaScript to sort a list of cities by population grouped by region? Just show me the code, no prose.

GPT-4:

  function sortCitiesByPopulation(cities) {
    return cities.sort((a, b) => {
      if (a.region === b.region) {
        return b.population - a.population;
      }
      return a.region.localeCompare(b.region);
    });
  }
  …