Prompt Engineering
Beginner
Zero-Shot and Few-Shot Prompting
Learn when plain instructions are enough and when examples are the fastest path to reliable behavior.
25 min
3 sections
zero-shot
few-shot
examples
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01. Start zero-shot for simple tasks
Section 1 of 3
Zero-shot prompting means you provide instructions without examples. It works well for common tasks with obvious output patterns: summarization, rewriting, classification with simple labels, and basic code explanations.
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Classify the following bug report as one of:
UI, API, Database, Authentication, Performance, Unknown.
Rules:
- Output only the label.
- Use Unknown when the report does not contain enough evidence.
Bug report:
Users see 401 after the session refresh endpoint returns success.Back to Course