Asking a model to do a task with no examples, just instructions.
Why it mattersTry this first. Modern models handle far more zero-shot than people expect.
See also Few-Shot Prompting, Prompt
Zero-Shot Prompting
Asking a model to do a task with no examples, just instructions.
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