prompt
/pɹɒmpt/
To request to provide input or do something on a computer; To lead toward what they should say or do; To say in order to help or encourage someone to speak; To show or tell the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing
- he/she/it
- prompts
- past participle
- prompted
Meanings
- 1
To request (a user) to provide input or do something on a computer
I forget what prompted me to write this.
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- 2
To lead (someone) toward what they should say or do
- 3
To say (something) in order to help or encourage someone to speak
- 4
To show or tell (an actor/person) the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing
- 5
To initiate; to cause or lead to
- 6
To provide textual input in the form of ordinary language to (an artificial intelligence or language model) to have it generate a desired output