N-Shot Prompting (Zero-Shot, One-Shot, Few-Shot, etc)

This family of terms refers to the number of examples used to prompt a model. For example, Zero-Shot Prompting is when a model is prompted with no examples, and Few-Shot Prompting is when a model is prompted with a few examples. Prompting a model with a few examples can be a good way to improve performance on a task without needing to fine-tune the model.