If you want Claude to match a voice, format, review style or decision pattern, examples often work better than abstract instructions.
Bad vs better
- Weak: Write naturally.
- Better: Here are three examples of the style. Match the sentence length, directness and level of detail.
- Weak: Give useful feedback.
- Better: Here are two examples of feedback I consider useful and one example I consider too vague.
Few-shot style prompt
Study these examples and infer the pattern. Then produce the requested output in the same style.
Good examples:
[example 1]
[example 2]
[example 3]
Avoid this style:
[bad example]
Task:
[paste]