You are optimizing a prompt for a Large Language Model to improve reasoning capabilities. Which TWO techniques are most effective for improving zero-shot performance?
Trap 1: Embedding the prompt in a Knowledge Base
This is an integration, not a prompting technique.
Trap 2: Few-shot prompting
This is not zero-shot.
Trap 3: Increasing temperature to 1.0
Higher temperature increases randomness, not reasoning quality.
- A
Embedding the prompt in a Knowledge Base
Why wrong: This is an integration, not a prompting technique.
- B
Persona adoption
Assigning a role helps align model output.
- C
Few-shot prompting
Why wrong: This is not zero-shot.
- D
Increasing temperature to 1.0
Why wrong: Higher temperature increases randomness, not reasoning quality.
- E
Chain-of-thought prompting
Instructing the model to think step-by-step improves logic.