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The Power of Examples in AI Prompts

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Francis Tan
Nov 26, 2025
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Why Examples Matter

AI does not understand in the same way humans do. It does not “know” what a professional email or a motivational post is. What it does have is billions of patterns in its training about what a professional email, on average, looks like, as well as how words, phrases, and structures tend to appear together in the specific contexts of a…

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