Prompt and its Structure
Learn about prompts and their elements in prompt engineering.
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What is a prompt?
A prompt is a stimulus or cue to elicit a particular response or action. Prompts can take many forms, such as verbal or written instructions, visual cues, or physical gestures. For example, a teacher might give students a prompt to guide their writing on a specific topic.
In natural language processing and LLMs, a prompt is an input provided to the model in order to generate a response or prediction. The prompt can be a sentence, a question, a paragraph, or an instruction.
For example, when using a large language model to generate text, a prompt can be a few words or a sentence that provides a starting point for the model to generate a longer piece of text. Based on the prompt, the model then uses its language modeling capabilities to predict and generate the most likely continuation of the text. Similarly, in question-answering tasks, a prompt can be a question. The model uses it to generate a response based on its understanding of the context and knowledge in its training data. ...