prompt template
/ˈprɒmpt ˈtempleɪt/
a reusable prompt skeleton whose slots are filled in at run time
prompt template in a sentence
“The support bot builds every request from one prompt template with the customer's details slotted in.”
Origin of prompt template
Latin promptus ready + templum pattern, plan
Related Words
negative prompt
an instruction telling an image model what to leave out
self-consistency
sampling several reasoning paths and taking the majority answer
tree-of-thought
exploring branching reasoning paths and backtracking from dead ends
jailbreak
a prompt crafted to trick a model into ignoring its safety rules
steerability
how reliably a model's behavior can be directed by instructions
context engineering
curating everything a model sees — instructions, examples, retrieved facts — not just the final question