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Co-authored-by: Harrison Chase <hw.chase.17@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Lance Martin <lance@langchain.dev> Co-authored-by: Jacob Lee <jacoblee93@gmail.com>
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# Step-Back Prompting (Question-Answering)
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One prompting technique called "Step-Back" prompting can improve performance on complex questions by first asking a "step back" question. This can be combined with regular question-answering applications by then doing retrieval on both the original and step-back question.
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Read the paper [here](https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.06117)
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See an excelent blog post on this by Cobus Greyling [here](https://cobusgreyling.medium.com/a-new-prompt-engineering-technique-has-been-introduced-called-step-back-prompting-b00e8954cacb)
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In this template we will replicate this technique. We modify the prompts used slightly to work better with chat models.
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