prompt
Definition
Ready and quick to act as occasion demands; immediate or punctual.
To encourage, assist, or remind someone to say or do something, often by providing a cue.
In computing and AI, a text input or instruction given to a system, chatbot, or generative model to elicit a specific response.
A symbol or message on a computer screen indicating readiness to receive input.
Examples
She was so prompt in replying to emails that her inbox became a mythical void of zero unread messages.
The AI's response to my prompt was hilariously literal: I asked for a 'short story,' and it delivered a single sentence epic.
In the play, the actor forgot his line, but the prompter's whisper saved him from turning Hamlet into a stand-up routine.
Staring at the blinking command prompt, he typed 'help me'—only for it to reply with 47 pages of options nobody reads.