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Step-Back Prompting published

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Step-Back Prompting published — first draws higher-level concepts and principles out of a specific question, then reasons

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A branch that inserts an abstraction step through the prompt

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Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06117

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