Few Shot

Flashcard: what does zero-shot prompting mean and what makes it work at all?

Flashcard: what is few shot prompting and what does the 'few' actually refer to?

Flashcard: what is chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting, in one sentence?

In a few-shot prompt that extracts structured fields from invoices, why is a distinctive stop sequence (like a custom END_INVOICE marker) better than a paragraph break or the natural end of response?

Explain how a DSPy-style 'prompt compiler' optimizer (like BootstrapFewShot) actually optimizes a prompt program and what makes it different from hand-tuned prompt engineering.

Design an experiment to determine empirically whether few-shot prompting outperforms zero-shot for a specific task on your production model.

You're prompting GPT-5.5 for English-to-Spanish translation. The zero-shot version works fine. When would adding few-shot examples reliably outperform the zero-shot prompt?

Why does the ORDER of few-shot examples in a prompt measurably affect output quality and where should the most-representative example go?