Chain-of-Thought is the most human prompting technique. If I want you to perform a hard task, I will first boil it down to simple steps.

Turns out our little ChatGPT friend isn’t different from us.

Do him a favor: break it down in simple steps!

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This is backed by science

Chain-of-Thought Prompting Elicits Reasoning in Large Language Models

We explore how generating a chain of thought -- a series of intermediate reasoning steps -- significantly improves the ability of large language models to perform complex reasoning. In particular,...

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A Survey of Chain of Thought Reasoning: Advances, Frontiers and Future

Chain-of-thought reasoning, a cognitive process fundamental to human intelligence, has garnered significant attention in the realm of artificial intelligence and natural language processing....

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Self-Consistency Improves Chain of Thought Reasoning in Language Models

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I ran several tests on Chain-of-Thoughts →

You should combine Chain-of-Thought with the rest. CoT + one-shot is the best combination. CoT + ToT to make sure it follows the guideline. CoT is just a way to think, and talk to your LLMs.