prompting

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of prompt

plural promptings

1. The action of saying something to persuade, encourage, or remind someone to do or say something.

   True, sometimes separating the promptings of the Spirit from the pressures of our own thoughts and desires can be a delicate task.

   2011, Kevin Hinckley, Promptings Or Me?: Recognizing the Spirit's Voice, page 58

2. The action of inputting prompts to an artificial intelligence system.

   It is these regions that an AI image generator will draw on most heavily when creating its pictures. But there are other places, less visited, that come into play when negative prompting – or indeed, nonsense phrases – are deployed.

   2023 March 16, James Bridle, “The stupidity of AI”, in The Guardian, →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 Apr 2023