Foundational Concepts
Prompt
The instruction or question you give to an AI model to produce a response.
Definition
A prompt is the input you provide to an AI model — the text that tells it what you want it to do. Prompts can be simple questions, detailed instructions, examples of what you're looking for, or complex multi-step tasks. How you phrase a prompt significantly affects the quality of the response. The practice of designing prompts to get better outputs has become a discipline in its own right, known as prompt engineering.
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Last modified: 29 March 2026