Glossary Entry

Prompt

The input text or instructions given to a generative model to shape the response it produces.

LLMs Generative AI

Also called: prompts

Seed source: Google ML Glossary

A prompt can be as short as a question or as structured as a long instruction with examples and extra context. It is the immediate interface between the user or application and the model.

This term shows up across the LLM, LangChain, chatbot, and intent-classification posts because many system behaviors depend on what information is placed into the prompt and how that information is ordered.