Prompting glossary
Audience
Who the answer is written for.
What it means
Audience is the reader the AI should be speaking to, including what they already know and what they care about. It is the detail most often left out, and the one that changes the answer the most.
How to use this in practice
Knowing the word is the easy half. The useful half is writing the instruction so the AI does not have to guess: say who it should act as, give it the background it cannot know, state the outcome you want, set the limits, and name the format the answer should come back in. That is the same structure behind every template in the free prompt library.
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