Artificial Intelligence (AI) - Concept
Prompt
The instruction, question or context you give an AI system to shape its response
What's it for?
Tells an artificial-intelligence tool what you want it to do or answer.
For example…
Write a three-bullet summary of this meeting transcript for executives, in British English, with no jargon
“Summarise this contract in five bullets for a non-lawyer and flag any renewal dates” is a prompt given to a generative AI tool
Think of it like…
Detailed brief to a freelancer: the clearer the ask, the closer the first draft is to usable