diff --git a/project/AkkaBuild.scala b/project/AkkaBuild.scala
index 9e1c895966..19248d3a79 100644
--- a/project/AkkaBuild.scala
+++ b/project/AkkaBuild.scala
@@ -339,7 +339,8 @@ object AkkaBuild extends Build {
 
   override lazy val settings = super.settings ++ buildSettings ++ Seq(
       resolvers += "Sonatype Snapshot Repo" at "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/",
-      resolvers += "Twitter Public Repo" at "http://maven.twttr.com" // This will be going away with com.mongodb.async's next release
+      resolvers += "Twitter Public Repo" at "http://maven.twttr.com", // This will be going away with com.mongodb.async's next release
+      shellPrompt := { s => Project.extract(s).currentProject.id + " > " }
     )
 
   lazy val baseSettings = Defaults.defaultSettings ++ Publish.settings