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Three prompting techniques for reasoning

Code, math, logic, and multi-step tasks all benefit from the same reasoning patterns.

3 prompting techniques for reasoning in LLMs

A large part of what makes such tools so powerful isn’t just their ability to write code, but their ability to reason through it.

And that’s not unique to code. It’s the same when we prompt LLMs to solve complex reasoning tasks like math, logic, or multi-step problems.

Let’s look at three popular prompting techniques that help LLMs think more clearly before they answer.

These are depicted below:

Overview of the three techniques from the PDF.
Overview of the three techniques from the PDF.

Key takeaways

  • Reasoning quality matters for code and non-code tasks alike.
  • The deck groups three concrete patterns you’ll see next.