Prompting glossary
Context
The background you give the AI before the request.
What it means
Context is the situation around the task: who you are, who the reader is, what already happened, what must not change. Adding two or three lines of context usually improves an answer more than adding clever wording.
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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