2.9 — Recap: the perfect-prompt template

🟢 In plain words — keep this template handy. It’s a checklist: fill in each bracket [...] and you have a complete prompt, from role all the way to guardrail.

[ROLE]     You are an experienced …
[CONTEXT]  Here's the situation: …
[TASK]     Your mission: … (action verbs)
[FORMAT]   Present the answer like this: … (length, structure)
[EXAMPLES] (Few-shot, if precise tone/format): input → output …
[GUARDRAIL] If information is missing, say so; don't invent it.

📚 Where do these techniques come from? (for the curious) Few-shot → GPT-3, Brown et al. 2020. · CoT (with examples) → Wei et al. 2022. · “Let’s think step by step” (zero-shot CoT) → Kojima et al. 2022. · Tree-of-Thoughts → Yao et al. 2023. · Graph-of-Thoughts → Besta et al. 2023.