// MODEL OPTIMIZATION AND PROMPT SYNTAX TERM
User Prompt
The specific instruction or question that a user gives to an AI model to get a desired response.
TECHNICAL DEFINITION
The explicit input text provided by a human user to an LLM, serving as the primary directive or query that guides the model's generation of a response, defining the task and context.
BACKGROUND
Prompt engineering is the process of structuring natural language inputs to produce specified outputs from a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) model. Context engineering is the related area of software engineering that focuses on the management of non-prompt contexts supplied to the GenAI model, such as metadata, API tools, and tokens.
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- Prompt
- input query
- user query
- instruction
USAGE NOTE
Crafting effective user prompts is fundamental to achieving desired AI outputs.