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For complicated prompts, I always add this:

"Before you start, please ask me any questions you have about this so I can give you more context. Be extremely comprehensive."

(I got the idea from a Medium article[1].) The LLM will, indeed, stop and ask good questions. It often notices what I've overlooked. Works very well for me!

[1] https://medium.com/@jordan_gibbs/the-most-important-chatgpt-...



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