Practice Introduction To Prompting Styles (4.1) - Types of Prompts — Zero-shot, Few-shot, and Chain-of-Thought

Practice: Introduction to Prompting Styles

Lesson 4.1Types of Prompts — Zero-shot, Few-shot, and Chain-of-Thought

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Question 1.
Create a zero-shot prompt to ask the model to summarize a news article.
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Think about how you would frame your question without any examples.
Question 2.
Provide a simple definition of few-shot prompting.
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Consider how it differs from zero-shot.
3Question 3.
What does zero-shot prompting involve?
- A. Providing examples
- B. No examples at all
- C. Step-by-step reasoning
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Think about the definition we discussed.
4Question 4.
True or False: Few-shot prompting can increase token usage.
- True
- False
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Recall the comparison of the two styles.
Question 5.
You must develop a robust AI system for customer support. Outline your strategy for integrating zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought prompting. What are the advantages and drawbacks of each in this solution?
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Consider the types of questions that each prompting method excels at answering.
Question 6.
A student is designing an AI application that requires users to input data in specific formats (e.g., JSON). How might they use few-shot prompting effectively while minimizing token costs?
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Focus on how to provide essential examples without overloading input.

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