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      "id": "few-shot-format",
      "kind": "tip",
      "kindLabel": "Tip",
      "title": "Your examples teach format louder than content",
      "body": "In few-shot prompts the model copies the shape of your examples first: the punctuation, the casing, the length, the label words. Get the format dead consistent and the task often solves itself. Sloppy examples teach sloppiness.",
      "tag": "prompting",
      "date": "2025 · 07 · 18",
      "publishedAt": "2025-07-18",
      "note": null,
      "extended": [
        "Few-shot learning is pattern continuation. The model is extremely sensitive to surface form, sometimes more than to the actual reasoning you intended to demonstrate.",
        "Make every example identical in structure, pick label words that are single clean tokens, and keep lengths similar. The more rigid the template, the more reliably the model fills in the next blank."
      ],
      "url": "https://ai-insights-for-humans.platphormnews.com/entries/few-shot-format"
    }
  }
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