Prompting glossary
Temperature
How predictable or adventurous the wording is.
What it means
Temperature is a setting that controls how much variation the model allows in its word choices. Lower settings produce steadier, more repeatable answers; higher settings produce more surprising ones. Most chat interfaces hide it, so you steer the same thing with words like precise or playful.
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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