Meaning & use
Prompting
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Encouraging, inciting, or causing someone to do or say something.
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A sudden noise outside sent everyone prompting toward the window to see what happened.
Her comment kept prompting a heated debate among the panelists.
A note on using this word
In modern computing, prompting has taken on a new technical meaning: writing the text instructions given to an AI language model to guide its response.
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2. noun
The act of writing instructions or questions to guide the output of an AI system.
Good prompting can dramatically improve the quality of an AI model's answers.
3. verb
Helping an actor by quietly supplying a forgotten line during a performance.
The stagehand was prompting the lead actor from the wings.
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