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🎞 ANIMATE · Mode 3 of 5 · +100 XP— Zero-Shot Prompting
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Task description only — no examples
Zero-shot: describe the task without any demonstrations💡 Analogy
Asking a doctor to diagnose without showing past cases — they use their training directly.
Zero-shot means asking the model to do a task without showing any examples first.
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> Prompt: classify review
> Examples: 0
> Task type: classification
●zero-shot.ts
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1// Zero-shot: no examples, just task description
2const response = await llm.complete(`
3  Classify the following review as POSITIVE or NEGATIVE.
4  Reply with only the label.
5 
6  Review: "Shipped fast and works perfectly!"
7`);
8// Output: "POSITIVE"
9 
10// Zero-shot CoT: add "Let's think step by step"
11const cotResponse = await llm.complete(`
12  Q: If I have 3 apples and give away 2, then buy 5 more, how many?
13  Let's think step by step:
14`);
15// Output: "Start: 3 apples → give 2 → 1 apple → buy 5 → 6 apples. Answer: 6"
16 
17// Zero-shot with role priming
18const expertResponse = await llm.complete(`
19  You are an expert Python developer.
20  Explain list comprehensions in one sentence.
21`);
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Task description only — no examples
Zero-shot: describe the task without any demonstrations💡 Analogy
Asking a doctor to diagnose without showing past cases — they use their training directly.
Zero-shot means asking the model to do a task without showing any examples first.
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> Prompt: classify review
> Examples: 0
> Task type: classification

Zero-shot: describe the task without any demonstrations

Zero-shot: describe the task without any demonstrations

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