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Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Prompting

Asking an AI to reason through a problem step-by-step rather than jumping straight to an answer, which often improves accuracy on complex questions.

Simply adding 'think through this step by step' to a prompt can noticeably improve results on maths, logic, or multi-part problems.
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