Markdown text in jupyter notebooks always has hashtags

I am a data science writer who writes most of his tutorials inside Cursor Jupyter Notebooks. One annoying bug/behavior of “CMD + K” is that all text in a markdown cell has a hashtag before each line:

To remove the hashtags, I always have to include “Don’t use #” to every inline edit or text generation.

I’ve tried everything from using per-project custom rules to using global rules in cursor settings. Has anybody faced this problem?