Users report 'show me three versions' prompt trick improves output diversity
A Reddit user shared a prompting technique that asks for three distinct versions of an answer at once, rather than iterating one at a time. The method reportedly beats the regression-to-the-average problem by forcing the model to produce genuinely different outputs. The post has garnered 11 engagement points.
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