Prompt may refer to:

  • Prompt (natural language), a cue, a nudge, or the minimal amount of natural language required to trigger a larger action.

Computing

  • Command prompt, characters indicating the computer is ready to accept input
  • Command Prompt, also known as cmd.exe or cmd, the command-line interpreter in some operating systems
  • * Prompt engineering, instructions issued to a client software system (such as a generative artificial intelligence agent-harness) in the form of written or spoken language.

Other uses

  • Project Resource Organisation Management Planning Techniques, a project management method; the predecessor to PRINCE2
  • Prompt NOx#Prompt|, a source of nitrogen oxides
  • PROMPT, the Performing arts ephemera collection at the National Library of Australia
  • PROMPT Telescopes (Panchromatic Robotic Optical Monitoring and Polarimetry Telescopes), Chile
  • Prompter (theatre), sometimes prompt, one who prompts an actor if they forget their line

See also

  • Prompt neutron, in nuclear engineering
  • Prompt criticality