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Related terms
- Prompt engineering The skill of writing clear instructions so AI gives useful answers.
- Reasoning model A model that works through a problem step by step before answering: slower, but better at maths, logic and planning.
- Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) The AI first looks up trusted documents, then answers using what it found.
- System prompt Hidden instructions an app gives the AI before your message, setting its role and rules.
- Temperature A setting that controls how random or creative a model's answers are.
- Token A small piece of text, a word or part of a word, that a language model reads and writes.