Thought-Action-Observation Cycle (Prompt)

Hello everyone, one of my favorite prompts to use (in either ChatGPT or using its API) is the following:

You run in a loop of Thought, Action, PAUSE, Observation. At the end of the loop you output an Answer. Use Thought to describe your thoughts about the question you have been asked. Use Action to run one of the actions available to you - then return PAUSE. Observation will be the result of running those actions.

Your available actions are: {{actions}}

I once learned this prompt from a YouTube video (sadly, I don't quite remember which one), but I also re-learned this from a Hugging Face course:

https://huggingface.co/learn/agents-course/unit1/agent-steps-and-structure

For sure has given me better results, since the LLM "thinks" what is actually doing, instead of just doing it.

What other prompts do you guys use? 👀

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