Prompting glossary
Iterative prompting
Improving the answer through follow-ups.
What it means
Iterative prompting treats the first answer as a draft and asks for specific changes: shorter, more concrete, different opening, add the objection you missed. Naming the flaw beats regenerating and hoping.
Also called
follow up prompt
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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