Question

A developer wants Copilot Chat to convert a list of raw log strings into structured JSON objects following a very specific field-naming convention. They plan to use a few-shot prompt with two input/output examples. To maximize the chance that Copilot produces output matching their exact convention, how should they structure the prompt?

Accepted Answer

State the task and the naming-convention rules first, then provide the two labeled input/output examples, then supply the new input to transform

Answer

Provide the two examples first without any instruction, then paste the new input and let Copilot infer the rules entirely from the examples

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Paste all raw log strings together and ask Copilot to 'make good JSON' without examples, since examples add unnecessary tokens

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Interleave the instruction between each example so every example is preceded by a restatement of the full naming convention