AI engineering glossary · Prompt context engineering
What is delimiters?
Delimiters: Marker characters or strings such as triple quotes, dashes or tags that separate parts of a prompt, for example the instructions from the text to be processed. They make boundaries clear to the model and lower the risk of mixing instructions with data.
Delimiters: an example
Summarise the text between ### markers: ### {email_body} ### so the model does not follow commands hidden in the email.
Related terms
More Prompt context engineering terms
- Developer message
- Directional stimulus prompting
- DSPy
- Dynamic few-shot selection
- Few-shot chain-of-thought
- Few-shot prompting
- Frequency penalty
- Function calling
Where you learn it
Delimiters is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.