langchain/templates/stepback-qa-prompting/README.md
Erick Friis ebf998acb6
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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>
2023-10-25 18:47:42 -07:00

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Step-Back Prompting (Question-Answering)

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.

Read the paper here

See an excelent blog post on this by Cobus Greyling here

In this template we will replicate this technique. We modify the prompts used slightly to work better with chat models.