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Mini-Challenge: Stack the Techniques
Write one prompt that uses at least three of the five techniques you've learned. The output should be something you'd actually want to keep.
The five techniques
- Zero-shot
- One-shot
- Few-shot
- Structured output
- Chain-of-thought
You don't need all five. Three working together is better than five that produce confusion.
Build and run
Write the prompt in a text editor before sending it. Composing multi-part prompts is easier when you can see the whole thing.
If you're not sure where to start: take a one-shot prompt from yesterday that worked, add a structured output instruction ("Output ONLY the HTML. No markdown fences."), and add a chain-of-thought step for the planning section. That's three techniques with minimal extra work.
Run it. If the output is useful, great. If not, identify the weakest part of the prompt and fix that one thing.
Share
Two or three people will read their stacked prompt aloud and name which techniques they used. Keep it brief: one prompt, one sentence on which techniques.