def format_error_message(exception_message, task_exception=False):
    """Improve the formatting of an exception thrown by a remote function.

    This method takes a traceback from an exception and makes it nicer by
    removing a few uninformative lines and adding some space to indent the
    remaining lines nicely.

    Args:
        exception_message (str): A message generated by traceback.format_exc().

    Returns:
        A string of the formatted exception message.
    """
    lines = exception_message.split("\n")
    if task_exception:
        # For errors that occur inside of tasks, remove lines 1 and 2 which are
        # always the same, they just contain information about the worker code.
        lines = lines[0:1] + lines[3:]
        pass
    return "\n".join(lines)