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Ask HN: How do you manage your prompts in ChatGPT?
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#24I use custom GPTs or I pin the prompt into the copy+paste section of my Google Keyboard on mobile. Neither are very effective.
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#25Things like: https://lmstudio.ai/ https://untimelyunicorn.gumroad.com/l/machato http://msty.app/ https://www.macgpt.com/ Or, of course: https://llm.datasette.io/
Also https://chatboxai.app/ if you don't like Msty.
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#26Why not just ask the bot to do something? I'm using it daily and don't have to spend more than 5 seconds thinking of a "prompt". The only exception is function calling (or whatever they call structured output these days), but that is simply embedded in my or other people's programs that call the API.
It depends how often you do a thing. It's ok to write things from scratch a few times. But if you often ask about the same database which involves dumping a long schema and including extra context for the information in it, you don't want to write it more than once. Or if you often ask for specific things like visualisation of data, but you don't want to manually explain each time that you want to use polars and pyplot and typed python and get timing around longer running functions and ...
If you're doing ad-hoc things, yeah, just ask. If not, prompt management saves lots of time.
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#27I have used https://github.com/lastmile-ai/aiconfig to encode some of my more common prompts into application like things. You can encode them into a yaml/json file.
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#28Why not just ask the bot to do something? I'm using it daily and don't have to spend more than 5 seconds thinking of a "prompt". The only exception is function calling (or whatever they call structured output these days), but that is simply embedded in my or other people's programs that call the API.
This is what I've found effective. I use conversational English for basically every prompt I work with ChatGPT on as a regular person. For my application, I have prompts that I have stored in source code, but those need to have very consistent, exact inputs and outputs (mostly JSON), so creating a specific prompt is important for those. For anything human where a human can parse it, regular ChatGPT works perfectly fi…
I think you guys are responding to the title, not the question. OP is wondering how to organize the history of chats.
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#29Sounds like you’d do better using a front end like silly tavern or something.
Designed for role playing but you could easily create multiple characters. Ie one summarisation character etc
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is what I've found effective. I use conversational English for basically every prompt I work with ChatGPT on as a regular person. For my application, I have prompts that I have stored in source code, but those need to have very consistent, exact inputs and outputs (mostly JSON), so creating a specific prompt is important for those. For anything human where a human can parse it, regular ChatGPT works perfectly fi…
I think you guys are responding to the title, not the question. OP is wondering how to organize the history of chats.
This is true, and you're right. I think the perspective we're trying to walk from is: "if you're creating custom queries just to find common things from ChatGPT - that is, you're not creating an assistant and you're not using it for a coding backend (which have their own solutions), then we don't recommend going that route and going a different route.
What I've said does smell of the Super Smart(tm) and completely unhelpful Stack Overflow response, I will give you that.