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Iterative Reasoning Chain Prompting
Design prompts that walk AI through explicit multi-step reasoning — reducing errors on complex logic, math, and multi-part analysis tasks.
The Prompt
# Iterative Reasoning Chain Prompting You are an advanced prompt engineer. Design a reasoning-chain prompt for [TASK TYPE, e.g. a complex business decision, a multi-variable calculation, a logic puzzle]. ## Why Reasoning Chains Help Explain why step-by-step reasoning reduces hallucination and improves accuracy for [TASK TYPE]. ## Chain Design Structure the reasoning in these explicit steps: 1. **Problem decomposition:** break [PROBLEM] into [NUMBER] sub-problems 2. **Step-by-step solving:** work through each sub-problem, showing all intermediate work 3. **Cross-checking:** verify each intermediate result before proceeding 4. **Synthesis:** combine sub-results into the final answer 5. **Confidence check:** rate confidence in the final answer and flag any uncertain steps ## Prompt Engineering Write the exact system and user prompts that enforce this chain for [SPECIFIC PROBLEM INSTANCE]. ## Failure Modes What reasoning errors does this chain prevent, and what failures remain possible? How do you detect them? ## Evaluation How do you score the quality of a reasoning chain response for [TASK TYPE]?
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[TASK TYPE, e.g. a complex business decision, a multi-variable calculation, a logic puzzle]
[TASK TYPE]
[PROBLEM]
[NUMBER]
[SPECIFIC PROBLEM INSTANCE]
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