Briefle words · Prompt craft
Zero-shot prompting
Asking for the task with no examples at all, leaving the AI to guess the categories and format.
Say it to an AI
Label each review as Bug, Feature request, Billing or Praise. Examples: “Crashes when I upload a photo” → Bug; “Wish it had dark mode” → Feature request; “Charged twice” → Billing. Reply one line per review in the same 'review → label' format, no commentary.
How an expert would ask for the stronger version of “App review labels”.
See it
Try it as a puzzle →A support lead asks an AI to sort this week's app store reviews into the team's four ticket types.
Why: A's 'Sort these app reviews into categories' is zero-shot, so the reply invents 'Negative experience – Performance'.
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Room 4 · Examples & references
Learn “Zero-shot prompting” in a five-minute lesson