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Formatting Data with Few-Shot Prompting

Formatting Data with Few-Shot Prompting

Large language models do more than converse - they can also structure data. Let's take a look at how "few-shot prompting" can help an LLM to deliver precisely what you need.

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Marcel Salathé
May 18, 2023
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Large language models took the world by storm because of their conversational abilities. For the first time, it seemed that an AI was able to hold a reasonably smart conversation with a human, and give answers to certain questions like a human would.

However, these models can also generate information in a structured format, ready to be further utilized as data by other programs. This can be a great way to automate some of your workflows.

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