Prompt
Text or data given to an AI system, usually by a user and often as an instruction, that is only part of the context the system sees when it answers.
Also called
- Instruction
Kinds
- Few-shot prompting A method of prompting where you supply some examples of inputs and the answers you expect from the model.
- Prompt chaining A simple workflow that uses the output of one prompt as the input of the next.
- Prompt template A shared prompt with sections that a person or a program fills in before sending.
- Role prompting A method of prompting which instructs the model to act as a certain human-like role or persona.
Often confused with
- System prompt A prompt written by the developer or vendor, not the user, that the app sends alongside every user-supplied prompt to set the model's role, rules, and tone.
How it connects
- Prompt part of Context
- Prompt engineering crafts the Prompt