Question

A developer asks Copilot Chat, in a single zero-shot prompt, to 'Write a function to calculate the settlement window for a T2 trade using our standard cutoff rules.' The output is generic and does not reflect the company's actual settlement logic, because terms like 'T2 trade' and 'standard cutoff rules' are internal domain conventions Copilot has no knowledge of. Without changing to a few-shot approach, what is the most effective way to improve the result on the next attempt?

Accepted Answer

Rephrase the prompt to explicitly define what 'T2 trade' and the 'standard cutoff rules' mean, including the concrete calculation steps and any constants, inside the prompt itself.

Answer

Repeat the exact same prompt several times and choose whichever response happens to align best with the internal rules.

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Shorten the prompt to just 'Write a settlement window function' so Copilot has fewer ambiguous terms to misinterpret.

Answer

Ask Copilot to explain what it thinks 'T2 trade' means and accept its definition as the basis for the function.