Examples Beat Adjectives
Use a small set of deliberate examples to teach quality boundaries more reliably than style adjectives.
If the quality bar is fuzzy, examples are usually a better teacher than adjectives. Why few-shot works Few-shot prompting gives the model concrete evidence of what good and bad output look like. That helps with format, emphasis, ordering, and edge cases all at once. The advanced stack Use chain-of-thought to decide what judgment the examples need to teach. Use role prompting to anchor the voice or lens. Use XML tags so examples stay separate from instructions and live input. Use prompt chaining when the same task needs separate passes such as extract first, write second, critique third. Example quality rules…
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