ai-agents-few-shot-prompting-ai-responses-are-inconsistent-or-poorly-formatted--b676f4e0

THEN Include a few-shot example in the messages array: provide a system prompt, a sample user message, and a sample assistant response before the actual user query. This context steers the model to follow a desired format and improves reliability.

"messages": [
    {"role": "system", "content": "You are an English word lookup assistant."},
    {"role": "user", "content": "run"},
    {"role": "assistant", "content": "run [/rʌn/]\n\nn. ...\n\nv. ..."},
    {"role": "user", "content": user_query}
]