MemotivaLLM Engineer Interview Questions: Prompt Engineering, Few-Shot, Chain-of-Thought, Structured Outputs

What is chain-of-thought prompting?

LLM Engineer Interview Questions: Prompt Engineering, Few-Shot, Chain-of-Thought, Structured Outputs

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What is chain-of-thought prompting?

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Chain-of-thought, or CoT, prompting asks the model to show its reasoning step by step before giving a final answer. For complex tasks like math or logic, CoT dramatically improves accuracy compared to direct answering. The simplest form just adds "Let's think step by step" to the prompt; more advanced versions provide examples of step-by-step reasoning.
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