AI engineering glossary · Prompt context engineering
What is directional stimulus prompting?
Directional stimulus prompting: A method that adds a short hint, such as a few keywords, into the prompt to guide the model toward the desired content of the output. A small helper model can generate the hint. It steers summaries and dialogue without changing the main model.
Directional stimulus prompting: an example
Adding 'Hint: monsoon, delay, refund' before asking for a summary of a train-delay complaint.
Related terms
More Prompt context engineering terms
- DSPy
- Dynamic few-shot selection
- Few-shot chain-of-thought
- Few-shot prompting
- Frequency penalty
- Function calling
- GBNF grammar
- Generated knowledge prompting
Where you learn it
Directional stimulus prompting is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.