Zero-shot prompting is a prompting technique where you give a language model a task without examples – the model should generate the correct output from the instruction alone. Thanks to their extensive pre-training, modern models can solve many tasks zero-shot. If quality is insufficient, you escalate to few-shot prompting (with examples) or fine-tuning.
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What is zero-shot prompting?
Zero-shot prompting is a technique where you give a language model a task without examples – it should generate the correct output from the instruction alone. Modern models can solve many tasks zero-shot thanks to their pre-training. If that is not enough, you escalate to few-shot or fine-tuning.
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