Chain-of-Thought Prompting

Chain-of-thought (COT) prompts solve more complex problems by instructing the model to break them into steps.

Key phrases: “think step by step”, “step by step plan”, “think out loud”.

Example

A Software Engineer is trying to debug/troubleshoot a 500 HTTP error returned by an API endpoint (more context can go here).

Provide a step by step, thorough plan for root cause analysis to help guide the debugging process.