A prompt is the instruction or request you give an artificial intelligence to carry out a particular task.
It is a kind of "conversation" with the AI in which you state exactly what you want to get. A prompt can be a simple question, a complex instruction or even a set of examples.
LLM (Large Language Model) - is a type of artificial intelligence built on natural language processing. These models are trained on enormous volumes of text data and can generate human-like text, answer questions and perform a variety of language tasks. Knowing how to write prompts properly lets you adapt an LLM to specific tasks.
A good prompt has to contain specific instructions and, where necessary, context that rules out ambiguity. Requests that include clarifications, for example, lead to more accurate and relevant answers. This takes an understanding of what the model can do and a sense of how best to phrase a request to reach the result you want.
What follows are some of the basic points about writing and formatting prompts that you need to know. Most of the prompts were run on ChatGPT 4, though versions 4o and 3.5 were used for some tasks. Many of the prompts in this guide address text tasks, but all the advice is universal and just as useful for creating images, writing code and generating speech.