DictionaryPrompt Engineering
Prompt
Everything you give the AI in one go: your question plus the instructions and background that come with it.
Definition
The complete set of instructions and context sent to an AI model in a single request. Includes system instructions, user message, conversation history, and any retrieved context. The quality of the prompt directly determines the quality of the output.
Example
The system prompt 'You are a code reviewer', two earlier messages, a pasted diff, and 'Any bugs?' together form one prompt.
Appears in
- Prompt Compression via Activation AggregationarXiv
- CacheProbe: Auditing Prompt Cache Isolation in Gateway APIsarXiv
- Don't Break the Cache: An Evaluation of Prompt Caching for Long-Horizon Agentic TasksarXiv
- ProCut: LLM Prompt Compression via Attribution EstimationarXiv
- EFPC: Towards Efficient and Flexible Prompt CompressionarXiv
- Auditing Prompt Caching in Language Model APIsarXiv