Prompting glossary
Prompt
The instruction you give an AI tool.
What it means
A prompt is everything you type into an AI tool before it answers: the request, the background, the rules and the format you want back. The quality of the answer follows the quality of the prompt, because the model can only work with the information you actually gave it.
Example
Write a 120 word LinkedIn post for accountants about year end deadlines, in a calm, direct voice.
Also called
ai prompt, chatgpt 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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