You tell the model "You are a senior tax adviser." Which technique is this?
Why A is the answer
Role prompting
Role prompting assigns a persona.
In detail
- Assigning a persona is role prompting.
- A persona shapes style, but it does not add knowledge.
Use case
An illustrative scenario, not a real incident.
A prompt says "You are a senior tax adviser", and the answers become more formal and careful.
See it in different ways
flowchart LR A["Zero-shot"] --> B["One-shot"] B --> C["Few-shot"] C --> D["Prompt chaining"] D --> E["Chain of thought and ReAct"]
mindmap
root((Prompting))
Examples
Zero-shot
One-shot
Few-shot
Persona
Role prompting
Steps
Prompt chaining
Tools
ReActflowchart LR S0["State the role"] --> S1["State the task"] --> S2["Review output"]
Key point: Role prompting assigns a persona.
Why the other options are wrong
- B. Prompt chaining
- Chaining links prompts.
- C. One-shot prompting
- One-shot gives an example.
- D. Fine-tuning
- Fine-tuning changes a model.