Hiding the full file path in a PowerShell command prompt in VSCode

So I've just downloaded Visual Studio Code to use as my default IDE for learning Python. I'm running on a 64-bit machine so I made the default terminal windows powershell.

The place where I'll be saving most of my files is about 8 folders deep which all show up in the terminal before any commands can be written. Is there any way to hide or shorten the file path in the terminal?

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As @Biclops suggested, there is good info here: configure PowerShell to only show the current folder in the prompt

However, I needed more basic info to get this to work. This is a very good resource to get started: Windows PowerShell Profiles. So I first followed the steps suggested there:

[always using vscode's integrated terminal using PowerShell]

test-path $profile

new-item -path $profile -itemtype file -force

notepad $profile

paste in (from the SuperUser answer above)

function prompt
$p = Split-Path -leaf -path (Get-Location)
"$p> "



Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned -Scope CurrentUser

"$pwd".Split('')[-1] + '> '

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