What is a role prompting?
A prompt, typically beginning with the pronoun you, that tells a generative AI model to pretend to be a certain person or a certain role when generating the response.
role prompting explained in plain English
A prompt, typically beginning with the pronoun you, that tells a generative AI model to pretend to be a certain person or a certain role when generating the response. Role prompting can help a generative AI model get into the right "mindset" in order to generate a more useful response. For example, any of the following role prompts might be appropriate depending on the kind of response you are seeking: You have a PhD in computer science. You are a software engineer who enjoys giving patient explanations about Python to new programming students. You are an action hero with a very particular set of programming skills. Assure me that you will find a particular item in a Python list.
Example
Practitioners refer to role prompting when building, training, or evaluating machine learning systems. It appears in research papers, product documentation, and technical discussions about AI capabilities and limitations.
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