Read the Prompt Again¶
By appending the phrase "Read the question again", you can improve the reasoning abilities of Large Langauge Models 1
This could look something like this
Re-Reading Template
[ Input Query ] Read the question again: [ Input Query ]
[ Critical Thinking Prompt ]
We can implement this in Instructor pretty simply.
import instructor
from openai import OpenAI
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
client = instructor.from_openai(OpenAI())
class Solution(BaseModel):
final_answer: int = Field(..., description="This is the final answer")
def solve_question(question: str) -> int:
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="gpt-4o",
response_model=Solution,
messages=[
{
"role": "system",
"content": f"""{question}. Read the question
again. {question}. Adhere to the provided
format when responding to the problem and
make sure to think through this step by
step.""",
},
],
)
return response.final_answer
# Example usage
if __name__ == "__main__":
question = """Roger has 5 tennis balls. He buys 2 more cans of tennis
balls. Each can has 3 tennis balls. How many tennis balls
does he have now?"""
answer = solve_question(question)
print(answer)
#> 11