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CoTChain of Thought
思考連鎖(しこうれんさ)
IntermediateCore Concepts
A prompting technique where you ask the AI to explain its reasoning step by step, which improves accuracy on complex tasks.
Why It Matters
Chain of thought can dramatically improve math, logic, and multi-step reasoning performance in LLMs.
Example in Practice
Adding 'Let's think step by step' to a word problem prompt, causing the model to show its work.