Prompt may refer to:
Computing
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Command prompt
Command Prompt, also known as cmd.exe or cmd, is the default command-line interpreter for the OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS, Microsoft Windows (Windows NT family and Windows CE family), and ReactOS operating systems. On Windows CE .NET 4.2, Wind ...
, characters indicating the computer is ready to accept input
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Command Prompt
Command Prompt, also known as cmd.exe or cmd, is the default command-line interpreter for the OS/2, eComStation, ArcaOS, Microsoft Windows (Windows NT family and Windows CE family), and ReactOS operating systems. On Windows CE .NET 4.2, Wind ...
, also known as cmd.exe or cmd, the command-line interpreter in some operating systems
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Prompt (natural language), instructions issued to a computer system (such as a
text-to-image artificial intelligence) in the form of written or spoken language.
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Prompt engineering
Prompt engineering is a concept in artificial intelligence, particularly natural language processing (NLP).
In prompt engineering, the description of the task is embedded in the input, e.g., as a question instead of it being implicitly given.
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, a concept in
artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intelligence displayed by animals and humans. Example tasks in which this is done include speech re ...
in which the description of the task is embedded in the input, e.g., as a question, instead of it being implicitly given.
Other uses
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Prompter (theatre)
The prompter (sometimes prompt) in a Theater (building), theatre is a person who prompts or cues actors when they forget their lines or neglect to move on the stage (theatre), stage to where they are supposed to be situated.Kennedy (2010), Pav ...
, sometimes prompt, one who prompts an actor if they forget their line
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PROMPT Telescopes
PROMPT, an acronym for Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes, is being built by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) in Chile. PROMPT's primary objective is ...
(Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes), Chile
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, a source of nitrogen oxides
See also
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Prompt neutron
In nuclear engineering, a prompt neutron is a neutron immediately emitted (neutron emission) by a nuclear fission event, as opposed to a delayed neutron decay which can occur within the same context, emitted after beta decay of one of the fission ...
, in nuclear engineering
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Prompt criticality
In nuclear engineering, prompt criticality describes a nuclear fission event in which criticality (the threshold for an exponentially growing nuclear fission chain reaction) is achieved with prompt neutrons alone (neutrons that are released imm ...
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