Prompting glossary
Delimiters
Marks that separate your text from your request.
What it means
Delimiters are simple separators such as triple quotes or a labelled block that show where source material starts and ends. They stop the model confusing the thing to work on with the instruction about it.
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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