Practice Introduction to Prompting Styles - 4.1 | Types of Prompts — Zero-shot, Few-shot, and Chain-of-Thought | Prompt Engineering fundamental course
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Introduction to Prompting Styles

4.1 - Introduction to Prompting Styles

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

Create a zero-shot prompt to ask the model to summarize a news article.

💡 Hint: Think about how you would frame your question without any examples.

Question 2 Easy

Provide a simple definition of few-shot prompting.

💡 Hint: Consider how it differs from zero-shot.

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Question 1

What does zero-shot prompting involve?

A. Providing examples
B. No examples at all
C. Step-by-step reasoning

💡 Hint: Think about the definition we discussed.

Question 2

True or False: Few-shot prompting can increase token usage.

True
False

💡 Hint: Recall the comparison of the two styles.

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Challenge 1 Hard

You must develop a robust AI system for customer support. Outline your strategy for integrating zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought prompting. What are the advantages and drawbacks of each in this solution?

💡 Hint: Consider the types of questions that each prompting method excels at answering.

Challenge 2 Hard

A student is designing an AI application that requires users to input data in specific formats (e.g., JSON). How might they use few-shot prompting effectively while minimizing token costs?

💡 Hint: Focus on how to provide essential examples without overloading input.

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