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What I also notice is that the very easily get stuck on a specific approach to solving a problem. One prompt that has been amazing for this is this:

> Act as if you're and outside observer to this chat so far.

This really helps in a lot of these cases.

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Like, dropping this in the middle of the conversation to force the model out of a "local minimum"? Or restarting the chat with that prompt? I'm curious how you use it to make it more effective.

Yeah exactly forcing it out of a "local minimum" is a neat way to describe it. In the middle of the conversation I drop this sometimes. Works wonders. You just have to tell it it's stuck in a loop and it will suddenly pretend (?) to be self aware.

That’s a cool tip; I usually just give up and start a new chat.

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