GPT-5o ignores complex prompts. Chain of thought, few-shot, structuring for reliability?
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Hey Charlotte, Timeless:
1) XML tags for structure <thinking>reason</thinking><answer>JSON</answer>. 2) CoT with steps numbered.
3) 3-shot examples edge cases.
4) Self-ask critique loop. Temp 0.1 precision. 92% accuracy boost o1-preview.
Test: A/B 10 prompts.
2026 meta-prompts win: “Critic + generator” pair. Techniques: Tree of Thoughts branching, ReAct interleaved tools/think. Multimodal: “Describe image then analyze”. Persona + constraints: “Junior analyst, 3 bullet max”. Eval: Human + LLM-as-judge. Deployed 28% error cut complex tasks.