09 Jan, 2025 Recently, I posted a prompt on X (formerly, Twitter) for Large Language Models like Claude sonnet, GPT-4o, Deepseek v3, and so on. The prompt instructs these models to 'contemplate' for a bit before providing the final answer, and it unexpectedly went viral. This is a short blog post on my thinking behind coming up with this prompt. Example output: You can find the full system prompt in this GitHub gist: Contemplative LLMs full prompt The inspirationIt is clear that the next big thi...