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As explained in The Art of AI Product Development

A prompt template is a reusable structured text pattern containing placeholders or guidance for constructing model prompts.

A prompt template is reusable guidance for shaping model interactions. In a financial-analytics chatbot, templates and suggested questions help steer users toward requests the model can handle; fixed question types and guardrails may be needed when users ask complex, off-topic, or unauthorized questions. section 1.1

A template for an AI agent

An agent prompt can specify its job and goals, how to respond when confidence is low, available tools, planning modules, relevant conversation memory, and the current user request. It can also define a style or persona. Because behavior is described in a prompt, product managers, designers, and domain experts can help design and test agents without coding. section 9.2.1

How The Art of AI Product Development covers it

How deep it goes
Defines templates through product examples and enumerates agent instructions, but gives no implementation syntax.
Examples
Uses a financial-analytics chatbot and a road-mapping agent to illustrate prompt-template roles.
What it assumes
Assumes a pretrained language model, while enabling non-coders to participate in agent design and testing.
What you can do after
Build it from scratch by defining an agent’s goals, confidence policy, tools, planning, memory, and response style.
How it connects
Connects prompt templates to chatbots, user interfaces, language models, AI agents, tools, memory, and human-in-the-loop policies.

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