I was using the Stream Realtime feature with screen share and shared my Visual Studio Code editor screen. I then asked what the code meant, but it said “backquote” many times whenever it displayed code, even though there were no backquotes in the selected code.
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The backquote character is used to “fence” code. It is a markdown character that selects for fixed-width font. This reference shows how it is used: Creating and highlighting code blocks - GitHub Docs
Hope that helps.
It is actually hard to determine where this answer originates in the computer vision. You might look at specifically what is being answered about in your question.
The name of the character used for making a monospace container in markdown is a backtick. It is not a backquote although it could be referred to as such - just as “directional quotes” could be considered to start with a backquote, also not the technical name in Unicode.
You can ask the AI what it is talking about for clarification, and where exactly it perceived that.
AI will typically not see the backticks as content, but instead as formatting, when provided as text. For example, I enclose code in a markdown code fence by typing the backtick character at the top left of the keyboard, and the Gemini user interface formats and obfuscates my actual input:
Then, the AI doesn’t answer the straightforward question, either:
Based on the provided code and the search results, here are the special characters used:
Parentheses: () These are used to enclose the string that is being passed to the print function.
Quotation marks: " These are used to define the beginning and end of a string literal.In this case, the string is “hello, Gemini”.
Comma: , Although not part of the string itself, the comma is technically a special character here because it acts as a separator when providing arguments to the print function.