Depends somewhat on the shell. In Bourne-compatible shells, the variable PS1 determines the primary prompt. There's also PS2 and PS4 (sic) for secondary and tertiary prompts. See the manual page for your shell for more information.
The secondary prompt is what you see when you leave a quote open and continue on the next line. It is usually set to "> " by default.
If your shell is csh or tcsh, those are not Bourne-compatible (but have a manual page, too).
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It looks like,
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Desired,
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