- In short
- The three core prompt engineering techniques are zero-shot, which gives instructions only with no examples and is the default to try first; few-shot, which adds a handful of input/output examples to demonstrate a desired format or judgment; and chain-of-thought, which prompts the model to reason step by step before producing a final answer. Chain-of-thought is an explicit reasoning instruction in the prompt, distinct from the model's internal extended-thinking feature.
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