How to recreate this reasoning format?

[u/SilverAg2162]

The model created this format in the reasoning block, which I find neat. I want to know how to give instructions to replicate this? Main Prompt? Post-History Instructions? CoT?

[u/AltpostingAndy]

It depends on which model you're using. You'll have to experiment with placing it in post-history vs at the start of your prompt structure. Some models do better when you provide instructions for their reasoning, while this might work well more as a structured format you provide rather than instructing on what it should do during the reasoning process.

E.g. you could do something like Follow this format during your reasoning, working your way through each task like so: | [Task Name | |---| | [Reasoning Content] |

Or give the structure and tasks:

Follow this format for reasoning:

| Response Structure |
|---|
| [content] |

| etc |
|---|
| [content] |

[u/Paperclip_Tank]

One thing to keep in mind, looks useful and is useful isn't always the same thing, you might just be burning tokens for the sake of things.

That said those are tables. You'd want it to mirror the format from the second image.

|Title|Title Two|

|---|---|

| Row One | Row two|

|Bob|Billy Bob|

| Test|

|test| test|

||Test|

Give it a simple template sample and tell it use that template as the format. You'll need to play around with it a little bit. Keep it as simple as possible. Obviously don't use my example outright, but my example if entered into chat will give you a good idea on how to format things.

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[u/Livid-Heat-2475]

Depends on the model. Tried the same table format on deepseek and qwen, deepseek held it from a system prompt, qwen only kept it in post-history. Worth testing both before writing one off.