Few-Shot Prompting: Show, Don't Describe

I once spent longer than I care to admit trying to describe exactly how I wanted ChatGPT to format a list of meeting notes. I explained the sections I wanted, the bullet style, where quotes went, how to mark action items. The output kept almost getting it, then missing one detail and drifting somewhere else. I got frustrated, deleted my instructions, pasted two real examples of the format I wanted, and asked for the same treatment on the new input. It nailed it on the first try. That was the mom