Question

A developer is using Copilot Chat to generate SQL queries in a consistent style. They craft a few-shot prompt containing four labeled example pairs (natural-language request → SQL query), followed by the new request they want answered. The first three examples use uppercase SQL keywords and fully-qualified table names, but the fourth (most recent) example accidentally uses lowercase keywords and unqualified table names. The generated query comes back in lowercase with unqualified names. What is the most likely explanation, and what should the developer do?

Accepted Answer

Examples closest to the final request tend to exert stronger influence on the output; the developer should fix the inconsistent last example so all examples model the intended style consistently.

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The model weights all examples equally by count, so majority formatting (3 of 4) should win; the developer should just regenerate until the majority style appears.

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Few-shot prompting cannot control formatting at all; the developer should remove the examples and rely on a detailed zero-shot instruction instead.

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The lowercase output means the model ignored the prompt examples entirely; the developer should add explicit temperature settings to force uppercase keywords.