How to control a large language model
Of all the inputs to a large language model, by far the most influential is the text prompt.

Large language models can be prompted to produce output in a few ways:

Instruction: Tell the model what you want
Completion: Induce the model to complete the beginning of what you want
Demonstration: Show the model what you want, with either:
A few examples in the prompt
Many hundreds or thousands of examples in a fine-tuning training dataset
An example of each is shown below.