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Prompt

Using AI, one of the 17 words to learn first

Whatever you type or say to an AI to get a response: your question or instruction.

More words in Using AI

• Prompt chainingBreaking a big job into steps and feeding each answer into the next prompt.
• Prompt engineeringThe skill of wording your request so you get better results from an AI.
• Prompt libraryA saved collection of prompts that work well, so you and your team can reuse them.
• RAGRetrieval-augmented generation. The AI looks things up in trusted documents first, then writes its answer from what it found.
• Rate limitA cap on how many requests you can make in a given time. It's why a chatbot sometimes tells you to come back later.