Few-shot prompting fixed my format problems better than any instruction ever did
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Instructions tell the model what you want. Examples show it. For anything where the shape of the output matters more than the content, few-shot prompting has been more reliable for me than writing longer and longer rules. Two or three worked examples pin down tone, length, and structure in a way a…
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Few-shot prompting fixed my format problems better than any instruction ever did
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