Techniques to improve reliability (continued)
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If you apply this technique to your own tasks, don't be afraid to experiment with customizing the instruction. Let's think step by step is rather generic, so you may find better performance with instructions that hew to a stricter format customized to your use case. For example, you can try more structured variants like First, think step by step about why X might be true. Second, think step by step about why Y might be true. Third, think step by step about whether X or Y makes more sense.. And you can even give the model an example format to help keep it on track, e.g.: