The importance of letting GPT-4 spell out its reasoning

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When using GPT-4, it is more effective to give it a single question with no structure rather than setting up a question-answer format. This allows GPT-4 to provide a higher quality answer by spelling out its reasoning. Default behavior yields better results than imposing a structured format. Giving an answer before explaining the reasoning leads to poorer quality responses. Remember the mantra: AAA - Analysis before answer always.

In this video, Nathan chats to Dan Shipper, CEO and Co-founder of Every, for the series "How I Use Chat-GPT". They discuss Nathan's prompting techniques for creative and cognitive labour, and using GPT in copilot instead of delegation mode. If you need an ecommerce platform, check out our sponsor Shopify: https://shopify.com/cognitive for a $1/month trial period.

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