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User “turn”? The computer doesn’t have a “turn”, it computes and generates output, you then read the output. Any anthropomorphic way of imagining this is necessarily incorrect.
It is dumb-human emulation software. It is explicitly designed to portray an illusion of human interaction.
Prompt is the generally accepted terminology in the relevant professional field