Classic 1-shot example from Brown et al. (2020) (GPT-3 paper) showing in-context learning: define a new word, give one usage example, and the model generalizes.
A "whatpu" is a small, furry animal native to Tanzania. An example of a sentence that uses the word whatpu is:
We were traveling in Africa and we saw these very cute whatpus.
To do a "farduddle" means to jump up and down really fast. An example of a sentence that uses the word farduddle is:
Source: https://github.com/dair-ai/Prompt-Engineering-Guide/blob/main/pages/techniques/fewshot.en.mdx