‘Before you answer…’
Getting better LLM output
TIL you can greatly improve the quality of an answer you get from an LLM if you include this in your prompt: Before you give me the answer, ask me everything you need to know to give me the best result possible.
Using this technique, I’ve found cases where I had the answer all along and explaining things to the LLM helped me find it. Which I’ve since learned is basically rubber duck programming.