AI glossary · Prompts and settings
Zero-shot prompting
Zero-shot prompting means asking an AI to do a task without giving it any examples, relying only on your instructions.
Also called zero-shot learning
In more detail
Modern large language models are good at zero-shot tasks because they have seen so many kinds of text. It is the way most people use chatbots day to day.
If results are inconsistent, adding one or more examples usually helps (see few-shot prompting).
Example
“Classify this review as positive or negative: ‘The battery died after two days.’”
Related terms
Few-shot promptingFew-shot prompting means including a few worked examples in your prompt so the AI copies the pattern, format or style you want.PromptA prompt is the instruction or question you give an AI tool, such as a message to a chatbot or a description for an image generator.Prompt engineeringPrompt engineering is the skill of writing and refining prompts so an AI gives more accurate, useful and consistent results.
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