How Models Learn

Zero-shot prompting

Asking a model to do a task with instructions only, without examples.

Both versions give instructions only, with no examples, which is called zero-shot prompting.
From Prompting and checking answers, step “Show examples and say what the output should look like”

See it in action

Try zero-shot prompting hands-on in the lesson Prompting and checking answers, part of the How AI assistants work course.

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