A crucial fact is often overlooked: LLMs are trained to reason, rather than prompted to reason. My team is dedicated to training but we also design various prompts to test LLMs.
Asking a AI LLM to re-read the question will dramatically improve its reasoning. More info and link to the paper are all in the quoted thread below: https://t.co/yGvb8ONl43
LLMs are apparently way more effective when you just ask them to re-read a question that you are asking. https://t.co/c02IYveXfY
Recent discussions among AI researchers highlight a significant improvement in the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) when prompted to re-read questions. This technique, which involves repeating the question input twice in the prompt, has been shown to boost LLM accuracy across diverse tasks and model types. Despite LLMs' limitations, such as difficulties with simple tasks like counting letters, this prompting strategy leverages their latent reasoning potential. Researchers emphasize that while LLMs do not invent new information but rather repackage existing data, effective prompting can enhance their performance significantly. A paper shows that adding 'Read the question again' often boosts LLM accuracy, a strategy already used by teachers.