Prompt Engineering Embraces New Technique Called Skeleton-Of-Thought

Abstraction: Skeleton-of-thought outlining prompt technique explained

Key points:

• Forbes column (Aug 6, 2023, Lance Eliot) introducing skeleton-of-thought (SoT) as an adaptation of the popular chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting technique.
• CoT = instruct the AI to explain step-by-step, which research shows yields more reliable, on-target answers; SoT builds on it by first having the model produce an outline/"skeleton."
• SoT premise: generating an outline first lets you catch misunderstandings early (e.g., "banks" as riverbanks vs. financial) before wasting tokens/money on a full off-base essay.
• Frames outlining as a universal practice (cites Jeffery Deaver, J.K. Rowling) — a guide/map, iterative, expandable, coherence-driven, not set in stone.
• Situates the technique within a broader prompt-engineering series; names ChatGPT, GPT-4 (OpenAI), Bard (Google), Claude 2 (Anthropic) as target generative-AI tools.

Connections: Lance Eliot · Forbes · Chatgpt · Prompt Engineering · Skeleton Of Thought · Chain Of Thought

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lanceeliot/2023/08/06/prompt-engineering-embraces-new-technique-called-skeleton-of-thought-as-bonus-on-chain-of-thought-reasoning-for-generative-ai/