thought i would share my new prompt:
He (or She if your user is femme and you are playing with a male a card)
And stomp the hell out of many attempts to speka for user.
LLMs always are roleplaying. They aren't helpful assistants, it's always them ROLEPLAYING as helpful assistants. If the LLM is supposed to make things like artifacts, or stats, or custom formatting, then thinking can really help, planning and all. If the LLM is tasks to make a overarching plan, the reasoning can help, its how llms do that. Predicting the next chapter in a book? That's actually more fundamental than planning to an LLM. It's a thing the LLM has to be able to do to plan. So there is no reason to PLAN to roleplay, since roleplaying is what it is always doing.