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One-shot

One-shot prompting is the middle ground between zero-shot and few-shot: you provide the model with a single example of desired input and output before the actual task. One well-chosen example is often enough to convey the expected format, tone and level of detail.

Definition

The practical rule: start zero-shot, add one example if results disappoint, scale to few-shot only if truly needed, more examples give more control but consume context.

Related terms

• Zero-shot
• Few-shot
• Prompting
• Prompt Engineering
• Context Window

More in Prompting

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

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