Natural language prompts are human-readable instructions or queries provided in natural language (i.e., the language spoken by humans) to interact with AI systems or language models. These prompts are used to guide the behavior of the AI system and elicit specific responses or actions. Natural language prompts can take various forms, including questions, commands, statements, or conversational prompts, and they are typically provided as input to AI models or systems capable of understanding and generating human-like responses.

In the context of language models like GPT-3, natural language prompts are used to specify the desired task, context, or information the model should generate or process. For example, a natural language prompt for a language model might be "Summarize the main points of this article," "Translate this sentence into French," or "Continue the following story." By providing prompts in natural language, users can interact with AI systems more intuitively and flexibly, enabling a wide range of applications such as text generation, translation, summarization, question answering, and more.