Practice When to Use Which Style? - 4.6 | Types of Prompts — Zero-shot, Few-shot, and Chain-of-Thought | Prompt Engineering fundamental course
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When to Use Which Style?

4.6 - When to Use Which Style?

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Practice Questions

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Question 1 Easy

Create a zero-shot prompt asking for the current temperature in a city.

💡 Hint: Think of a direct question with no examples needed.

Question 2 Easy

Provide a few-shot prompt asking for the name of the capital of a country.

💡 Hint: List examples to establish a pattern for the model.

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Interactive Quizzes

Quick quizzes to reinforce your learning

Question 1

What is zero-shot prompting best used for?

Complex reasoning tasks
Quick factual lookups
Creative tone generation

💡 Hint: Think about tasks that require straightforward responses.

Question 2

True or False: Few-shot prompting provides no examples to the model.

True
False

💡 Hint: Consider the definition of few-shot prompting.

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Challenge Problems

Push your limits with advanced challenges

Challenge 1 Hard

Create a multi-layered prompt that requires transitioning between all three styles for a complex task involving historical analysis.

💡 Hint: Think about how to guide through facts, examples, and reasoning.

Challenge 2 Hard

Present a scenario requiring the model to jump between different prompting styles smoothly in a storytelling format.

💡 Hint: Combine clarity, examples, and reasoning in a sequence.

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