CCAO-F Prompting and Context Engineering — All Questions With Answers

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      "role": "user",
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          "type": "text",
          "text": "<documents>\n<doc index='1'>The fiscal year ends in June.</doc>\n<doc index='2'>The budget is $5M.</doc>\n</documents>\nAnswer the question using the docs: When does the year end?"
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      "name": "get_stock_price",
      "description": "Retrieve current stock price",
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      }
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{"error": "Invalid request: system prompt must be provided as a string"}

SYSTEM: You are a helpful assistant.
USER: What is 2+2?
ASSISTANT: 4
USER: And what is the capital of France?
ASSISTANT: Paris
USER: What was my first question?

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  "system": "You are a data analyst.",
  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": [
        {
          "type": "text",
          "text": "Analyze this CSV: <data>id,val\n1,10\n2,20</data>",
          "cache_control": {"type": "ephemeral"}
        },
        {
          "type": "text",
          "text": "What is the average value?"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "messages": [
    {
      "role": "user",
      "content": "Extract the user's name from this email: <email>From: John Doe <jdoe@example.com>...</email>"
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      "role": "assistant",
      "content": "{ "name": ""
    }
  ]
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  "system": "You are a data analyst.",
  "messages": [
    {"role": "user", "content": "Summarize the following: <data>...</data>"}
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  "temperature": 0.7
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