Prompting glossary
Role prompting
Telling the AI who it should act as.
What it means
Role prompting assigns a point of view, such as a skeptical buyer, a copy editor or an operations manager. It works because it narrows the vocabulary and priorities the model draws on, not because the model becomes an expert.
Example
Act as a skeptical customer reading this page for the first time and list what you would not believe.
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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