Prompting glossary
Few-shot prompting
Showing examples of what good looks like.
What it means
Few-shot prompting includes two or three finished examples inside the prompt so the model can copy the pattern. It is the fastest way to lock in a voice, a structure or a formatting style you struggle to describe in words.
Also called
examples in prompt
How to use this in practice
Knowing the word is the easy half. The useful half is writing the instruction so the AI does not have to guess: say who it should act as, give it the background it cannot know, state the outcome you want, set the limits, and name the format the answer should come back in. That is the same structure behind every template in the free prompt library.
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