Prompt Engineering — Glossary

Well-Known URI

A standard location, always under /.well-known/, where machines look for information about a site — security contacts, API catalogues, agent details. Putting files there means they can be found without being linked.

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AI Bias

When a system produces unfair results because its training data reflected an unfair world. It matters commercially as well as ethically: a biased model makes confidently wrong decisions about real people.

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Function Calling

When a model, instead of answering from memory, asks to run a specific tool — look up a price, check stock — and uses the result. It is what turns a chat assistant into something that can act.

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Long-Tail Query

A longer, more specific search — “boutique hotel Siem Reap near Pub Street with a pool” rather than “hotel”. Individually rare, collectively most of all searches, and far easier to answer well.

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Prompt Injection

An attack where hidden instructions in a web page or document trick an AI into ignoring its real orders. The reason a careful assistant treats page content as information, never as commands.

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Neural Network

A system of simple connected units, loosely inspired by the brain, that learns patterns from examples rather than following rules somebody wrote. Nearly all modern AI is built on one.

Related terms

Well-Known URI

AI Bias

Function Calling

Long-Tail Query

Prompt Injection

Neural Network