persona prompting
/pərˈsoʊnə ˌprɒmptɪŋ/
instructing the model to adopt a specific role or character to unlock different capabilities
persona prompting in a sentence
“The persona prompt 'Act as a senior security engineer' improved code review quality.”
Origin of persona prompting
Latin persona mask, character + prompting
Related Words
instruction tuning
fine-tuning models specifically on instruction-following examples
prompt
the input text given to a language model to guide its response
system prompt
persistent instructions that set the model's behavior and persona for an entire conversation
few-shot learning
providing examples in the prompt to demonstrate desired input-output patterns
zero-shot
asking a model to perform a task without any examples
chain-of-thought
prompting the model to show its reasoning step-by-step before giving a final answer