Glossary term
What is Prompt?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Prompt" means: What you type or paste to tell the assistant what you want. It is taught in ChatGPT and AI Assistants at Work, Digital Marketing With AI: Get Customers Online and Build AI Agents and Workflows (No-Code) and 2 more courses. Related terms include AI assistant, Response, Model and Hallucination.
- 5 courses teach it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Prompt?
What you type or paste to tell the assistant what you want. (From ChatGPT and AI Assistants at Work. 4 other courses define it for their own subject, so each definition follows.)
What does Prompt mean in ChatGPT and AI Assistants at Work?
What you type or paste to tell the assistant what you want.
What does Prompt mean in Digital Marketing With AI: Get Customers Online?
The instructions and details you type into an AI assistant.
What does Prompt mean in Build AI Agents and Workflows (No-Code)?
The written instructions you give a language model. In a workflow it works like a specification.
What does Prompt mean in Prompt Engineering Essentials?
The text you give an AI tool. It can be a question, a request, pasted material, or all three.
What does Prompt mean in Start an AI Automation Agency for Small Businesses?
The written instruction you give an AI, including its job, the allowed answers and the format.
Where is Prompt taught?
Prompt is defined in ChatGPT and AI Assistants at Work, Digital Marketing With AI: Get Customers Online, Build AI Agents and Workflows (No-Code), Prompt Engineering Essentials and Start an AI Automation Agency for Small Businesses.
ChatGPT and AI Assistants at WorkDigital Marketing With AI: Get Customers OnlineBuild AI Agents and Workflows (No-Code)Prompt Engineering EssentialsStart an AI Automation Agency for Small Businesses
Which lessons cover Prompt?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- ChatGPT and AI Assistants at Work, lesson 2.4: Save What Works: Prompt Cards
- ChatGPT and AI Assistants at Work, lesson 6.3: Keep It Working: The Monthly Re-Test
- Digital Marketing With AI: Get Customers Online, lesson 1.4: Brief Your AI Helper
- Build AI Agents and Workflows (No-Code), lesson 3.2: Writing Prompts That Work Like Specifications
- Build AI Agents and Workflows (No-Code), lesson 3.4: Giving the AI Your Own Information
- Build AI Agents and Workflows (No-Code), lesson 5.3: Safety: Permissions, Private Data and Prompt Injection
Which terms are related to Prompt?
Next to Prompt in the course glossaries: AI assistant, Response, Model, Hallucination, Context, Customer profile, Context block, Baseline, Invented facts and Key event.
AI assistantResponseModelHallucinationContextCustomer profileContext blockBaselineInvented factsKey event
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Prompt?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at beginner level:
- ChatGPT and AI Assistants at Work: No coding, statistics or earlier AI experience needed.
- Digital Marketing With AI: Get Customers Online: You can use a web browser, copy and paste text, and save a document.
- Build AI Agents and Workflows (No-Code): Comfortable using email, a web browser, and a spreadsheet (rows and columns; formulas are not needed).
- Prompt Engineering Essentials: No coding, statistics or prior AI experience needed.
- Start an AI Automation Agency for Small Businesses: No coding skills required.