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prompting

prompting

4.6
Giving an AI short instructions to make it give certain replies
  • noun
  • /ˈprɑːmptɪŋ/
  • Specialized
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  • The programmer focused on effective prompting to improve the AI's responses in the new application.

I think we understand ourselves very poorly and we need to to have the kind of prompting from from a machine.

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Examples

  • And we've seen these magical moments almost in this way to do few shot prompting through language on language only domain.

  • I think we understand ourselves very poorly and we need to to have the kind of prompting from from a machine.

  • After that first week on the ring, saved from embarrassment a dozen times by the AI's promptings, she dreamed of the old words whispered into her ear by a ghost, as if the minder had grown suddenly ancient and vastly wise.

    Fiction book (2000)
  • For successful results, prompting the language model with clear questions is essential.

  • Users can enhance their interactions with the AI by utilizing proper prompting techniques.

How Specific

instruction
455 1.2
prompting
  • Specialized
4.6
prompt
  • Specialized
8 3.8
query
  • Specialized
36 4.4

Surface Forms

prompting singular
promptings plural

Morphology

prompting = prompt (semi-transparent) = prompt + ing

Formally 'prompt' + '-ing' but the sense is specialized (computing/AI) and extends the idea of giving cues to a technical process.

Etymology

Prompting comes from prompt, meaning 'bring forward', and now it is used for giving a short instruction that makes an AI produce an answer. So prompting in computing is the act of guiding the AI with that instruction.