Basics
Prompt
The instruction or question you give an AI to get a response.
A prompt is simply whatever you type or say to an AI to get it going. It can be a short question, a long set of instructions, or an example of what you want. The clearer and more specific your prompt, the better the answer tends to be, which is why people talk about the small craft of writing good prompts.
For example
'Write a friendly two sentence reply declining this meeting invite' is a prompt.
Related
Large language modelA program that learned to use language by reading enormous amounts of text.TokenThe small chunk of text an AI reads and writes, often part of a word.Context windowHow much text an AI can keep in mind at one time.ParametersThe internal dials a model adjusts while learning, numbering in the billions.