# 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](https://docs.gdf.ai/gdf-full-stack-engineering/prompting/prompt-patterns)
* [Prompt Context](https://docs.gdf.ai/gdf-full-stack-engineering/prompting/prompt-context)
* [Prompt Stores](https://docs.gdf.ai/gdf-full-stack-engineering/prompting/prompt-stores)
* [Prompt Operators](https://docs.gdf.ai/gdf-full-stack-engineering/prompting/prompt-operators)
* [Prompt Chaining](https://docs.gdf.ai/gdf-full-stack-engineering/prompting/prompt-chaining)