What is "zero-shot" prompting?

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Asking with no examples — you give only the instruction and let the model answer — Zero-shot means you give just the instruction, with no examples, and let the model respond. It's not about retrying, disabling randomness, or stripping context.

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Asking the same thing twice — you send a prompt again to confirm the first reply

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Asking with the temperature off — you disable randomness so output never varies

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Asking without any context — you strip out background to save on the token usage

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