[thrw42A8N]

And then they fed that database to the model through prompts. That's prompt engineering.

[profsummergig]

Is there a name for the activity of trying out different strategies to improve the model? Before one prompts it in the wild.

[thrw42A8N]

I'm not sure, I'm not really an expert in the field, though I do this professionally (but it's just a tiny part of what I do). I just call it A/B testing...