Zero-Shot & Few-Shot Prompting

Summary

Zero-shot asks a model to perform a task with no examples; few-shot includes a handful of examples in the prompt to steer format and style — a cheap alternative to fine-tuning.

• 1Compare zero-shot vs. few-shot output quality on the same task.
• 2Practice picking diverse, representative few-shot examples.
• 3Learn when few-shot stops helping and fine-tuning becomes worth the investment.