What is…
Prompt
The instructions and context you give a model — the single biggest lever on the quality you get back.
A prompt is everything the model reads before it answers: your question, pasted material, examples, and any instructions about format or tone. Small changes — adding who the audience is, showing an example, asking for a table — can transform the result.
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Related terms
System prompt
Behind-the-scenes instructions that set a model's role, rules and style for the whole conversation.
Few-shot prompting
Showing the model a few examples of what you want before asking it to do the real task.
Context engineering
Deliberately choosing what goes into the model's context — instructions, files, examples, tools — to get reliable results.
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