prompting

Verb

prompt (third-person singular simple present prompts, present participle prompting, simple past and past participle prompted)

1. (transitive) To lead (someone) toward what they should say or do.
   • I prompted him to get a new job.

   Synonyms:

   counsel, exhort, admonish, adjure, advise, advocate, encourage, urge, recommend, suggest

2. (transitive) To say (something) in order to help or encourage someone to speak.
   • "How did you solve the issue then?" Jason prompted while staring at Lana.
3. (transitive) To show or tell (an actor/person) the words they should be saying, or actions they should be doing.
   • If he forgets his words I will prompt him.
4. (transitive) To initiate; to cause or lead to.
   • At first Renie's chain of thought had been prompted by the unsatisfactory nature of phone contact compared to an actual meeting,[…]1996, Tad Williams, chapter 7, in City of Golden Shadow, Legend Books, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   instigate, provoke, abet, actuate, goose, fuel, light a fire under, send, sting, bring about

5. (transitive) To request (a user) to provide input or do something on a computer.
   • The script prompted him to enter his credit account number.
6. (transitive, machine learning) To provide textual input in the form of ordinary language to (an artificial intelligence or language model) to have it generate a desired output.
   • I want to prompt this new AI art generator to create an image of a panda riding a bike.

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