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Anyone have any techniques for combining the "show your steps" style prompting, but then "only provide the answer" as some sort of output filter? Feels like you could feed "Now answer the original question without any explanation" as a second round trip on the chat dialog, and return that to the user instead.

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I just have chatGPT label sections of its output, within an answer, eg:

[notes]

…stuff about how it will perform the task…

[output]

…stuff I wanted it to write…

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That would be easy to then parse and it does a good job of consistently labeling.

Can you give example of the prompt to make it to this?

Sure, here’s a simple one.

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Hello ChatGPT, please perform the following [task] according to the provided [rules].

[rules]

- start your response with a section labeled [notes] where you describe how you’ll complete the task

- complete the task in a section labeled [output]

[task]

Write a paragraph explaining why water flows.

I just watched a Ted talk by Sal Kahn (founder of Kahn academy) where he talks about giving their chat bot an internal monologue. It's light on details but might be a starting point.

https://youtu.be/hJP5GqnTrNo?t=735

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