Core Prompting Techniques: Zero-Shot, Few-Shot, and Chain-of-Thought

Three Techniques, One Decision Zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought are usually presented as a list of tricks. They are better understood as three answers to one question: how much of the work do you do, and how much do you leave to the model? Zero-shot describes the task. Few-shot demonstrates it. Chain-of-thought gives the model room to work it out. E...