VS Code AI Customization: Learn to use custom instructions, prompt files, and custom chat modes to personalize AI code generation, reviews, and chat responses.
Smaller prompts, better answers with GitHub Copilot Custom Instructions
Working with GitHub Copilot in VS Code amps out your efficiency as a programmer - but did you know that adding a simple markdown file can boost this efficiency even more, while *also* decreasing the size of your prompt? Custom Instructions can help you and your team do so much more with GitHub Copilot, and @rconery will show you how in this video.
🔎 Chapters:
00:12 Simple, automatic instructions
02:07 Custom Git commit messages
03:26 Customizing Copilot functionality in VS Code
05:00 Going all in with markdown files as instructions
🔗 Links:
Get Copilot: https://aka.ms/get-copilot
Instruction Snippets for JSONC: https://gist.github.com/robconery/f93d016ace16feb7156f9b7905f3f499
🎙️ Featuring: @rconery
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