[vulcanash999]

One way to approach questions like this is to change the prompt to something like "List characters in the word strawberry and then let me know the number of r's in this word". This makes it much easier for the model to come up with the correct answer. I tried this prompt a few times with GPT4o as well as Llama 3.1 8B and it yields the right answer consistently with both models. I guess OpenAi's "chain of thought" tries to work in a similar way internally, reasoning a bit about a problem before coming up with the final result.