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Glossary · Prompt Engineering

What is Prompt?

The input you give an AI model — instructions, context, examples and data.

In more detail

A good prompt usually includes a role, context, a clear task and the output format.

Example

"Act as a DBMS professor and explain 2NF with one example table."

Learn it properlyThe Anatomy of a Good Prompt: Role, Context, Task and Format9 min lesson · Prompt Engineering

Related terms

Chain-of-Thought PromptingAsking a model to reason through intermediate steps before giving its final answer.DelimitersMarkers like triple quotes or <tags> that separate instructions from the text you want processed.Few-Shot PromptingGiving a model a few input-output examples before the real input so it copies the pattern.Prompt EngineeringThe skill of writing and improving prompts so AI tools give accurate, useful output.Prompt InjectionAn attack where text inside the input tries to override the AI’s original instructions.System PromptBackground instructions that set an AI assistant’s role, rules and tone for a whole conversation.