diff --git a/project/AkkaBuild.scala b/project/AkkaBuild.scala
index 9e1c895966..13314f1324 100644
--- a/project/AkkaBuild.scala
+++ b/project/AkkaBuild.scala
@@ -340,7 +340,9 @@ 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
-    )
+    ) :+ {
+    shellPrompt := { s => Project.extract(s).currentProject.id + " > " }
+  }
 
   lazy val baseSettings = Defaults.defaultSettings ++ Publish.settings