# prompting

Pronunciation: say "PROMPT-ing" US /ˈpɹɑmptɪŋ/, UK /ˈpɹɒmptɪŋ/

## Noun

1. Verbal persuasion, encouragement, or reminders used to get someone to speak or act.
   - Simple: Words said to remind or encourage someone to do or say something.
   - _After some gentle prompting from his teacher, the student finally raised his hand._
   - _The witness recalled the events without any prompting from the lawyers._
3. The act of giving text instructions to an artificial intelligence system to guide it toward a desired response.
   - Simple: Typing instructions to an AI program to get it to do something.
   - _Effective prompting often involves giving the model clear examples to follow._
   - _The team improved their results through careful prompting of the language model._

## Verb

2. Present participle of prompt. — present participle and gerund of prompt
   - Simple: Present participle of prompt. Use this form when the action is happening right now.
   - _The director was prompting the actors from the wings whenever they forgot their lines._
   - _By prompting the witness repeatedly, the lawyer drew out the full account._

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/prompting (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).