06AI & promptingEssential

Prompt

The instruction you give the AI; it decides the quality of the output.

For example

Build me a word-card component in React with the word, pronunciation and a save button.

Resources

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You are a senior engineer. Before writing code, restate the goal, list your assumptions, then propose a plan.

Related terms

The relevant information the AI needs to finish the task.

For example

Product goal + current code + requirements doc — all of that is context.

Have the AI look up relevant material first, then answer from it — fewer hallucinations, more accuracy.

For example

My app uses RAG to retrieve dictionary material, then has the AI write the explanation.

Vector database

A database built for storing and retrieving vector data, common in AI apps such as semantic search.

For example

I store each word's vector in a vector database so I can do semantic search later.