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One-Shot Chain-of-Thought (COT) Prompting

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Few-Shot Chain-of-Thought (COT) Prompting

Few-shot Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting is a technique that involves providing a language model with one or more demonstrations of CoT reasoning within the prompt. Each demonstration consists of a problem paired with the detailed, step-by-step thought process used to arrive at the solution, guiding the model on how to reason through similar problems.

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Updated 2026-05-02

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Ch.2 Generative Models - Foundations of Large Language Models

Foundations of Large Language Models

Foundations of Large Language Models Course

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Ch.3 Prompting - Foundations of Large Language Models

[START OF PROMPT]
Q: A farmer has 15 sheep. All but 8 died. How many are left?

A: Let's think step by step.
1. The phrase "All but 8 died" is a bit tricky. It means that 8 sheep are the ones that did *not* die.
2. Therefore, the number of sheep left is 8.
The final answer is 8.

Q: In a race, a runner overtakes the person in 2nd place. What position is the runner in now?
[END OF PROMPT]

What is the key element in the provided demonstration that guides the model to reason through the new puzzle?

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