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Applied AI·Prompting

examples teach format and edge-case handling far more reliably than prose descriptions of the format.

Few-shot / in-context learning

Also calledin-context learning

Including worked examples of input and desired output in the prompt. The model imitates the pattern without any weight updates; this imitation-from-context is called in-context learning. Two to five well-chosen examples often beat paragraphs of instructions.