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Prompt engineering
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<p> Prompt engineering is the process of structuring or crafting an instruction in order to produce the best possible output from a <a href="/facts/Generative_artificial_intelligence/ykT3GGyT">generative artificial intelligence</a> (AI) model. </p><p>A <i>prompt</i> is <a href="/facts/Natural_language/B4gLS7Kd">natural language</a> text describing the task that an AI should perform. A prompt for a text-to-text <a href="/facts/Large_language_model/WnogWVJY">language model</a> can be a query, a command, or a longer statement including context, instructions, and conversation history. Prompt engineering may involve phrasing a query, specifying a style, choice of words and grammar, providing relevant context, or describing a character for the AI to mimic. </p><p>When communicating with a <a href="/facts/Text-to-image/ez6APLzp">text-to-image</a> or a text-to-audio model, a typical prompt is a description of a desired output such as "a high-quality photo of an astronaut riding a horse" or "Lo-fi slow BPM electro chill with organic samples". Prompting a text-to-image model may involve adding, removing, or emphasizing words to achieve a desired subject, style, layout, lighting, and aesthetic. </p>