Context

Background facts in the prompt that the model couldn’t otherwise know, such as your situation or a document.

Anthropic’s guide notes that explaining the context or the reason behind an instruction helps the model give a more targeted answer.
From Prompting and checking answers, step “Give it the context only you have”

See it in action

Try context hands-on in the lesson Prompting and checking answers, part of the How AI assistants work course.

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