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Follow text from characters to tokens, attention, transformers and generation.
Prompt
A prompt is the instruction or question given to a model.
Think of it like
Think of Prompt as part of a very fast reader that repeatedly decides what information matters and what should come next.
Real life
Autocomplete, translation and chat assistants depend on concepts such as Prompt.
SRE lens
“Summarize this incident in five bullets and cite log evidence” is a prompt.
Remember thisA prompt is the instruction or question given to a model.