What you are missing here is that ChatGPT has no internal mental state, nor a hidden place where it register it’s thinking. The text it outputs is its thinking.

What you are missing here is that ChatGPT has no internal mental state, nor a hidden place where it register it’s thinking. The text it outputs is its thinking. So, the more it think before answering the better. When you ask it to don’t add extra commentary you are in essence nerfing it. Ask it to be more verbose before answering, think step by step, careful consider the implication, rest for some time and promise it a 200 dollar tip. Those are some prompt proven to improve the answer.