This should be of help:
http://bashrcgenerator.com/
I believe you need to set your PS1 in .bashrc
Here is a tutorial on doing it manually:
https://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-linux-unix-bash-shell-setup-prompt.html

On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 8:23 AM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote:

> On my "new" Slackware machine, booting in run level 3, after startx, and
> opening a terminal, the prompt looks like:
>
> bash-4.3$
>
> When I log in via ssh the prompt looks like:
>
> rsteff@ENU-2:~$
>
> When I open a terminal on Ubuntu, the prompt looks like:
>
> Dick@ENU-1:~$
>
> Why doesn't the prompt in the first example look like the one in the
> second, or similar to the one in the third?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
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