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📚 Glossary

Prompt

In one line: What you type to an AI. The art of writing effective prompts is called prompt engineering.

A prompt is the input you send to an AI — your question, instruction or context. The quality of the prompt is the single biggest factor in answer quality, more than the choice of model.

Examples of weak vs strong prompts:

  • Weak: 'Write a tweet'
  • Strong: 'Write a 220-character tweet announcing our new pricing page. Tone: casual but professional. No hashtags. Include one emoji.'

The discipline of writing effective prompts is called prompt engineering. See also how to ask a good question.

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