Prompt Recipes
Self-Consistency Prompting: 5 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Self-consistency prompting in 2026: five copy-paste recipes that sample multiple reasoning paths and majority-vote the answer, plus a gate for when to skip it.
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Sam Q.
Sam Q. writes terse, tested prompt recipes for PromptAttic. Ships them the way you would a commit message: short, verified, no preamble.
Prompt Recipes
Generated Knowledge Prompting: 4 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Four paste-ready generated knowledge prompting recipes for 2026: make the model generate facts first, then answer, each with the failure mode nobody prints.
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Self-Ask Prompting: 4 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Self-ask prompting in 2026: four copy-paste recipes that make a model ask and answer its own follow-up questions, plus the search-tool upgrade and the gate for when to skip it.
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Chain of Verification: A Prompt That Catches Its Own Hallucinations (2026)
Chain of Verification (CoVe) is a four-step prompt that cuts hallucinations by making a model draft, plan verification questions, answer them independently, and rewrite keeping only what survived.
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Assistant Prefill: 4 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Assistant prefill in 2026: four copy-paste recipes that force JSON, kill the preamble, lock the output shape, and hold a persona, plus where prefill breaks.
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Step-Back Prompting: 5 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Step-back prompting in 2026: five copy-paste recipes that make an LLM state the governing principle before it answers, plus a gate for when to skip it.
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Prompt Delimiters: 6 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Six copy-paste recipes for fencing prompts with delimiters in 2026: which delimiter per job, why it works, and the failure mode each one prevents.
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Least-to-Most Prompting: 6 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Least-to-most prompting for LLMs in 2026: six copy-paste recipes that decompose a hard problem into ordered subproblems and feed each answer forward, with the receipt, the reasoning, and the failure mode for each.
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Prompt Compression: Recipes That Ship (2026)
Six copy-paste prompt compression moves for 2026 with real before and after token counts. Cut manners, redundancy, and agent history. No library required.
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Few-Shot Prompting Examples That Ship (2026)
Six copy-paste few-shot prompting examples that ship: classification, JSON extraction, tone matching, refusal, edge-case teaching, and format locking.
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Role Prompting: 5 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Five paste-ready role prompting recipes for 2026: domain expert, audience, format contract, adversary, and voice, each with its failure mode.
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Prompt Chaining: 5 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Five paste-ready prompt chaining recipes for 2026: extract-then-reason, draft-critique-rewrite, route, map-reduce, and generate-then-gate, each with its failure mode.
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