Prompt
A prompt is the instruction or question you give an AI — its wording, detail, and context strongly shape the quality of the answer you get back.
Definition
A prompt is the input that tells a language model what you want — a question, a task description, or a set of instructions. Its wording, detail, and context heavily shape the answer. Compare 'write about dogs' with 'write a friendly 100-word intro for new owners on house-training a puppy': same topic, but the second prompt gives the model enough to actually be useful.
Why it matters
Two people asking the same question can get wildly different answers depending on how they phrase it, and most people never learn the phrasing tricks that help. Writing good prompts is a real skill — and it is exactly the work AskClear's mediator does for you. It asks a few quick clarifying questions, then rewrites your rough request into a well-formed prompt, so you get a strong answer without having to become a prompt expert.