Local AI Glossary
What is Prompt?
Source: local-llm.net/glossary
The text input provided to a language model that it uses as context for generating a response. A prompt can include a system prompt (setting behavior), user messages, examples (few-shot), and instructions. Prompt engineering is the practice of crafting effective prompts to get desired outputs.
How Prompt fits in the local AI stack
Prompt is part of the broader local AI ecosystem. See the related guides, comparisons, and tools below to see how it applies in practice.
See also
- Full Local AI Glossary
- All learn topics
- What is Local AI?
- Quantization explained
- Hardware requirements
- How to choose a local LLM