1.3 Structured overview of different prompting techniques: Zero shot, Few shot, Multishot prompts

Structured overview of different prompting techniques:

• Zero-shot prompting

  • Prompting without providing examples

  • Mechanism

  • Use cases

  • Advantages & Limitations

• Few-shot prompting (detailed overview with examples in chapter 3)

  • Prompting after providing examples

  • Mechanism

  • Use cases

  • Advantages & Limitations

• Multi-shot prompting (detailed overview with examples in chapter 3 & 4)

  • Prompting after providing larger set of examples

  • Full fine-tuning, leveraging many demonstrations in a single prompt

  • Mechanism

  • Use cases

  • Advantages & Limitations