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# Prompting

Prompts are the requests you send to a language model like ChatGPT that tells the system to return a response. Prompts can be a singular request or a combination of requests. The first request in a prompt is called the root request. 

In this section we discuss prompting in detail to provide a good foundation in applying processes from the various GDF knowledge areas to your prompts. 

The Prompting section consists of the following key concepts: 

* [Prompt Patterns](/gdf-full-stack-engineering/prompting/prompt-patterns.md)
* [Prompt Context](/gdf-full-stack-engineering/prompting/prompt-context.md)
* [Prompt Stores](/gdf-full-stack-engineering/prompting/prompt-stores.md)
* [Prompt Operators](/gdf-full-stack-engineering/prompting/prompt-operators.md)
* [Prompt Chaining](/gdf-full-stack-engineering/prompting/prompt-chaining.md)