Zero-shot or few-shot?
Practice this question- I begin with clear zero-shot instructions.
- If errors concern category boundaries or formatting, I add a few representative reviewed examples and evaluate them on separate cases.
- Examples should cover ambiguity, not just easy successes.
Adapted from 13_AI.MD · “29.2 Prompt engineering”. Code examples are study fragments. Difficulty and core labels are editorial estimates; version-specific behavior should be checked against your project.