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Prompt

Sketch: in a barber chair, 'Just a cut' gets a wild haircut; 'Short sides, a little off the top' gets short, trimmed hair.

A prompt is the text, files or images you give an AI model to tell it what you want.

Think of it like this: The prompt is the steering wheel: it points the engine and car in a direction. A clear prompt gets you to the right place more reliably than a vague one.

Source:

https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/glossary#prompt (checked Oct 15, 2026)
https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/build-with-claude/prompt-engineering/system-prompts (checked Oct 15, 2026)

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