Glossary term
Glossary term
Agentic Systems
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.
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A customer support team uses role prompting to set the assistant's tone and authority before answering questions.
A legal-tech team uses role prompting to anchor the model as a contract reviewer with a specific scope of practice.
A coding assistant uses role prompting to position the model as a senior engineer when generating code review feedback.
Definition source: Google for Developers Machine Learning Glossary | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License