offer-candidate-answers TEC-0235Offer the candidate answers
When a direct, answer-only response is wanted, give the model the possible answers to choose from instead of leaving the answer space open.
Closing the answer space, by turning an open question into a choice among stated candidates, makes it easier for a model to answer without visible working. It is a prompt-side lever on cutting to the chase, and it only applies where the candidates can be enumerated without giving away the answer or narrowing it wrongly.
Requires: A task whose plausible answers can be listed in advance.
Contexts: Chat assistant, General
Does it work?
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