Diagnosing a Flawed Prompting Strategy
Analyze the following scenario describing a developer's prompting strategy. Based on the provided information, identify the primary flaw in the examples being used and explain why this flaw leads to the model's poor performance on new problems.
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Ch.3 Prompting - Foundations of Large Language Models
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