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Few-shot

Few-shot prompting is the technique of providing the model with 2-5 examples of desired input and output before presenting the actual task. The examples act as a "demonstration" of what is expected, guiding the model toward the correct format, tone, and level of detail.

Definition

For example, to classify customer support emails by urgency, you can include 3 emails already classified as "High / Medium / Low" urgency before asking for classification of the new email. The model learns from the pattern of the examples and applies the same criterion to the new input.

Related terms

• Zero-shot
• Chain of Thought
• Prompting
• Prompt Engineering
• Output Format

More in Prompting

• Prompt
• Prompting
• Role Assignment
• Zero-shot
• Chain of Thought
• Prompt Engineering
• Output Format
• Audience (in prompting)

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