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verb - What someone does when they are giving instructions to an AI.
verb
1. Inputs given to an AI; Differentiated from the typical computer input of a "prompt", typically involving natural language inputs such as "a photo of a woman in a red hat drinking a cup of coffee on a cold day"

"James is a master proompter", he can get the AI to make magic on the first try."

Autoproompting:
2. Inputs given from an AI, to another AI.
"I was using ChatGPT to proompt Stable Diffusion, and came up with some awesome images!"
"I setup an autoproomting script to generate random images on the fly with no proompting."
"I used img2img to auto generate proompts, then fed those back into txt2img to make more images to make more prompts"...
I have a plugin that lets me do Stable Diffusion proompting directly from Krita!
proompt by Ollie Anthem March 23, 2023
A magical word that engineers use to summon the power of language models to complete any task imaginable. It is often used in memes to represent the infinite possibilities of artificial intelligence and to poke fun at the sometimes-unpredictable nature of prompt-based learning.
"When in doubt, just add a proompt and let the AI do the work #promptmagic "
Proompt by firezbug March 17, 2023
In fanfiction terms, when someone has received a request to write something in particular, whether it is a simple thing out of every-day life or a longer story.
Anonymous made a prompt with character A and character B cuddling

Anon prompted kiss under the mistletoe
Prompt by wednesdaycoolbluenights August 13, 2013
best ffxv boy 10/10
friend; hey whos that cute guy from ffxv
me; its prompto of course
prompto by promptosBF May 1, 2020

Promptograph 

Promptograph is a term for an AI assisted image that is generated using text prompts.

It is a word coined by a Peruvian photographer and popularized by a German artist Boris Eldagsen who rejected a photography award for an image he created using AI.

A promptograph can look like a photograph, a drawing, a painting or anything else depending on the text prompt. It is different from photography which is the art or process of producing images by the action of light on a sensitive surface.
Show me the promptograph created using the text prompt: “a blue sky with white clouds and a rainbow”.
Promptograph by davespire June 1, 2023
Word of the Day on June 30, 2023

Promptly 

ADJECTIVE:

1. Done immediately, at once and without delay.

VERB:

1. To make somebody decide to do something.

2. To cause something to happen

3. To provide actors during a performance with words or lines they have forgotten.

4. To suggest something that somebody ought to say, or give a reminder to a speaker.

NOUN:

1. A reminder to a performer of the words or lines he or she has forgotten.

2. The act or occasion of reminding a performer of forgotten words or lines.

3. A symbol or message displayed on a computer monitor or an audio signal informing a computer user that some input is required.

4. The time limit of payment for goods or services, as indicated on a prompt note.
ADJECTIVE:

1. She promptly made coffee.

VERB:

1. What prompted him to change his mind, we don't yet know.
2. Fears of inflation prompted an immediate rise in interest rates.
3. He had to be prompted three times in the first scene.
4. His wife had to prompt him to mention the cleaning staff.

NOUN:

1. The reminder itself.
2. The reminding.
3. A computer symbol.
4. Time limit.
Promptly by Jafje April 15, 2007
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