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Five copy-paste Tree of Thoughts (ToT) prompt recipes for 2026: the one-prompt expert panel, branch-score-pick, explicit backtracking, ToT for planning, and when to skip ToT and just use self-consistency.
Five copy-paste top_p (nucleus sampling) recipes for the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs in 2026: the default that ships, clamping the tail for extraction, focused creative, steadier JSON, and the one-knob rule.
Four copy-paste logit_bias recipes for the OpenAI API in 2026: ban a token, pin a classifier, fix the tokenizer mismatch, and know when it is the wrong tool.
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.
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.
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.
Six copy-paste LLM temperature and top_p recipes for 2026: the exact setting per task type, why it works, and the failure mode it prevents.
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.
System prompt vs user prompt in 2026: five copy-paste placement recipes with the same instruction shown in both lanes, plus the injection failure mode that makes lane choice a security decision.
Six copy-paste prompt compression moves for 2026 with real before and after token counts. Cut manners, redundancy, and agent history. No library required.
Eight copy-paste few-shot prompting examples that ship: classification, JSON extraction, tone, refusal, edge cases, message-history shots, and dynamic example selection.
ReAct prompting interleaves reasoning and tool calls: Thought, Action, Observation, repeat, until the model has enough to answer. It is how a plain prompt becomes an agent. Six copy-paste ReAct recipes below, each with the failure mode that bites first. Tested July 2026.
