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      "id": "few-shot-format",
      "kind": "tip",
      "kindLabel": "Tip",
      "title": "Your examples frame 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 frame sloppiness.",
      "tag": "prompting",
      "date": "2025 · 07 · 18",
      "publishedAt": "2025-07-18",
      "note": null,
      "insight": {
        "aha": "Few-shot examples frame surface form first. The model copies the pattern before it understands your intention.",
        "tryThis": "Make labels, punctuation, casing, separators, and example length boringly consistent.",
        "watchFor": [
          "One example with a different label shape",
          "Multi-token labels competing with single-token labels",
          "Examples that demonstrate style drift instead of the task"
        ]
      },
      "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://tips.platphormnews.com/entries/few-shot-format"
    }
  }
}