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Task description

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A prompt component that states the overall goal the language model should accomplish.

A task description states the overall goal a language model should accomplish. It can be brief or detailed according to the task’s complexity, and it is the only strictly necessary prompt section. Confirm its wording and order for the task and model you use. section 2.1.2

Your goal is to classify customer messages

A customer-message classification goal illustrates a concise task description. section 2.1.2

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promptpart of · An input, typically containing instructions or context, supplied to an artificial-intelligence model to guide or elicit its output.
templatepart of · A template is a reusable structure with fixed elements and variable parts for creating or generating similar content, outputs, or artifacts.

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