it can help to give the AI explicit instructions that go step by step through what you want. One approach, called chain-of-thought prompting,11 gives the AI an example of how you want it to reason, before you make your request. Even more usefully, you can also provide step-by-step instructions that build on each other, making it easier to check the output of each step (letting you refine the prompt later), and which will tend to make the output of your prompts more accurate.
