1. 🧠 Chain of Thought (CoT)

"Think step by step"

2. 🌳 Tree of Thoughts

"Explore 3 different approaches and pick the best"

3. 🎭 Extreme role-playing

"You are Stephen King writing a new horror…"

4. πŸ“ Few-shot with triple quotes delimiters

5. πŸ”„ Self-consistency

"Generate 3 versions and return the most accurate"

6. 🌑️ Temperature & top_p control

(When available)

7. 🎯 Meta-prompting

"First write the perfect prompt for this task, then execute it"

8. πŸ” Critique & revise loop

9. πŸ“Š Structured output

Always ask for JSON/Markdown/YAML

10. πŸ’Ύ Reusable prompt templates

Apply any of these and instantly multiply your output quality by 2–5Γ—.