Lopsis

Lesson 2.2

Few-shot examples

Examples communicate format and edge-case handling far better than description. Two well-chosen ones usually beat a paragraph of instructions.

Taught byPriya RamanLLMs · RAG · Prompt engineering · Evaluation
5m Intermediate 20,928 students

Overview

Examples communicate format and edge-case handling far better than description. Two well-chosen ones usually beat a paragraph of instructions.

What this lesson covers

  • Show the format instead of describing it
  • Choose examples that cover the tricky cases
  • Watch for examples that bias the output

This lesson sits in Prompting That Holds Up, part of Building AI Apps with LLMs. It assumes what came before it and leads directly into the next lesson in the module.

In this lesson you will:

  • Show the format instead of describing it
  • Choose examples that cover the tricky cases
  • Watch for examples that bias the output

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