Advanced Prompting Techniques

Unlocking the full potential of LLMs requires mastering advanced prompting techniques. These techniques involve writing effective prompts that significantly improve LLM performance. By writing well-structured and well-defined instructions, we can guide the model to generate accurate and relevant responses.

Advanced prompting in Llama 3

The following are some advanced prompting techniques we can use in Llama 3 to elevate the model results.

• Zero-shot prompting

• One-shot prompting

• Few-shot prompting

• Chain-of-thought

• Self-consistency

• Roled-based prompting

Let’s dive into the details of these advanced prompting techniques.

Zero-shot prompting

Zero-shot prompting is the technique of providing simple and direct instructions to the model without any additional context or examples. In this technique, the model is given unseen tasks and uses its training knowledge to generate a response without relying on any previous tasks or examples. In simple words, it is prompting without example, which is why it's also called direct prompting.