AI Glossary
Meta-prompt
What is Meta-prompt?
A prompt that instructs an AI model to generate or improve another prompt, rather than directly completing a task. Meta-prompting is used to systematically improve prompt quality and is a technique in automated prompt optimisation. It illustrates the flexibility of LLMs as general-purpose instruction followers.
Example in practice
A prompt engineer who asks an AI "Improve this prompt for extracting contract clauses: [original prompt]" before deploying it to production is using meta-prompting to leverage the model's language understanding to refine its own instructions.
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