Few-Shot Prompting to Teach AI Your Taste Preferences

Few-shot prompting is a technique where you give an AI two to five examples of what you want before making your actual request, effectively teaching it your preferences within the conversation itself. For cooking, this means showing the AI three recipes you love and then asking it to generate new suggestions that follow the same flavor profile, ingredient style, or preparation approach.

This method is far more effective than vague descriptions like wanting something hearty or simple, because it gives the AI concrete patterns to match. Home cooks who learn few-shot prompting get personalized recipe recommendations that actually reflect how they eat, rather than generic crowd-pleasing suggestions.