Glossary · Phase 1 · Building with LLMs
Prompt
The instructions and text you send to a model.
Try it now
Send the vague prompt first. Then replace it with the detailed version above and send again. It's the same model, but you'll get a very different email. If a reply comes back cut off, raise max_tokens.
Learn it properly
Prompt fundamentals · Clear instructions, context and constraints: the 80% of prompting. About 30 minutes.
Other terms from the same lesson
- XML tags: Labels like <document> and </document> that mark where each part of a prompt starts and ends, so the model can't mix them up.
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