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Home/Glossary/Prompt
AI Glossary Term

What does “Prompt” mean?

Definition

The input instructions and context provided to a generative model.

Related terms

In-Context Learning
A model's ability to follow patterns from examples provided directly in the prompt.
Prompt Injection
An attack pattern where malicious instructions are inserted into model inputs or retrieved content.
Prompt Template
A reusable prompt pattern with variables, formatting rules, and task-specific instructions.
Context Window
The maximum amount of input tokens a language model can process at once.
Prompt Engineering
Designing prompts to improve output quality, reliability, and controllability.
Parent-Document Retrieval
A retrieval pattern that searches small chunks but returns their larger parent documents for richer context.

Learn more in our free guides

Prompt EngineeringAI Prompt SecurityPlan-and-Solve PromptingIP-Adapter for Image Prompts

See also

PretrainingPrecisionPipelinePruningPerplexityQuantizationParameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT)RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation)
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