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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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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Socratic Prompting: 5 Recipes That Ship (2026)
Socratic prompting in 2026: five copy-paste recipes that surface assumptions, self-interrogate in one message, debug by question, and add a maieutic consistency check, plus 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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Chain of Density: A Summarizing Prompt That Ships (2026)
Chain of Density is a one-call summarizing prompt that rewrites a summary five times at fixed length so it packs in the facts most 'summarize this' prompts drop. Copy-paste receipt, the failure modes, and the production variant.
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Assistant Prefill on Claude: 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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LLM Temperature Settings: 6 Recipes That Ship (2026)
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.
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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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System Prompt vs User Prompt: The Placement Rules That Ship (2026)
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.
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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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