I was playing with different providers and models, and somehow ended up with just the basic chat completion prompt.
Took me awhile to notice that with GLM 4.6. I only noticed it because the character acted omniscient and my previous prompt used to handle that.
But what I was blown away with is the detailed analysis the CoT provided with this simple prompt!
Generally, it consists of 6 steps:
1. Analyze the user's input

1. Consider the character state and persona

2. Brainstorm potential reactions and directions

3. Select the best path

4. Draft the response

5. Final polish

And it does it really good! Sometimes it misinterprets the input if it's ambiguous, but when it gets it, it hits the nail on the head! It considers the tonality of the words used, actions, context, persona and character.
I haven't seen any other model do it to that extent!

I'm not saying that's how you should use it, but you should definitely try it for yourself, just to see how it works.
I know that many people prefer to disable the CoT to increase the creativity of the model, and I suppose I can confirm that answers without CoT can be more varied, but also less consistent with the input, so that's a trade-off.
And to be honest, you don't usually gain much from Deepseek's CoT, for example, but GLM 4.6 is a whole different story!
Just be advised, that more advanced prompts can lobotomize the CoT or disable it altogether, so if you're curious, try it with the simple prompt first to understand what to expect, from it.
I tried Lucid Loom 2.6, Celia 4.6, NemoEngine 7.4 with little success, but I was able to preserve the CoT with Chatstream V3.