Prompting glossary
Grounding
Making the AI work from your material.
What it means
Grounding means pasting in the real source material, your notes, your transcript, your product page, and instructing the model to use only that. It is the single most effective way to cut invented detail.
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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