Prompt Recipes
Few-Shot Prompting Examples That Ship (2026)
Five copy-paste few-shot prompting examples that ship: classification, JSON extraction, tone matching, refusal, and format locking, plus the shot-count and label-bias traps.
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Five copy-paste few-shot prompting examples that ship: classification, JSON extraction, tone matching, refusal, and format locking, plus the shot-count and label-bias traps.
ReAct prompting interleaves reasoning and tool calls: Thought, Action, Observation, repeat, until the model has enough to answer. It is how a plain prompt becomes an agent. Six copy-paste ReAct recipes below, each with the failure mode that bites first. Tested July 2026.
Zero-shot prompting is the right default for most tasks in 2026. Five recipes that make instruction-only prompts reliable, plus the exact point to add one example.