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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your prompts in ChatGPT?

#31

I tried it when it was new and found it impressive and cute as a gimmick and intriguing from a technical/scientific point of view. Since then I haven't found any uses for it and stopped using it altogether.

Hah! This resonated with me. Maybe I'm just "getting old", but I fail to understand the value of 99% of this stuff...

You don't see the value of getting answers without wading through a search results trash fire?

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your prompts in ChatGPT?

#32
post #7

This is actually one of my biggest issues with ChatGPT, that it's not really possible to create some kind of reusable workflows. The best option is Custom GPTs, to create a specific chat bot for one task. There are many UI projects for LLMs, like openwebui.com for example. But even with the OpenAI API as backend they don't provide as many features as ChatGPT (Web search, Python processing of data, charting, image gen…

I looked into creating a simple Firefox extension for ChatGPT which would let me branch a conversation off into a new chat so as not to "pollute" or interfere with the existing chat.

I had success extracting the existing conversation and adding it to a new window, but gave up after trying to modify the ChatGPT UI (i.e. to format what I'd just pasted in so it'd look like the conversation left off where I branched). The UI just kept re-rendering/re-painting itself non-stop, overriding what I changed. I didn't try to push past that. I'm sure I could use JS or something else to massage the UI further, but it didn't seem like a non-trivial task. Maybe something to look into some weekend.

https://github.com/lulzury/got-branch-convo

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your prompts in ChatGPT?

#33
I humbly submit my project as a possible solution.

It's open-source on Github.

https://github.com/danielmiessler/fabric

The tagline is Human Augmentation Using AI, but really it's a crowd-sourced library of prompts.

Basically, I solve a problem once, to a satisfactory level, and then I upload it to Fabric so everyone else can do the same.

Over 22K stars just since January 2024.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your prompts in ChatGPT?

#35
It's a tedious issue that I face everyday too. I solved for myself by creating a single prompt for different tasks.

What I do is create a few prompts that will be enough for my everyday tasks. Like if you do coding on a daily basis, create a single prompt that will make ChatGPT understand your coding requirements.

Open that single prompt for coding, anyday. No need to scroll up and down (which is very frustrating btw).

Hope this helps.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your prompts in ChatGPT?

#36
post #32
post #7

This is actually one of my biggest issues with ChatGPT, that it's not really possible to create some kind of reusable workflows. The best option is Custom GPTs, to create a specific chat bot for one task. There are many UI projects for LLMs, like openwebui.com for example. But even with the OpenAI API as backend they don't provide as many features as ChatGPT (Web search, Python processing of data, charting, image gen…

I looked into creating a simple Firefox extension for ChatGPT which would let me branch a conversation off into a new chat so as not to "pollute" or interfere with the existing chat. I had success extracting the existing conversation and adding it to a new window, but gave up after trying to modify the ChatGPT UI (i.e. to format what I'd just pasted in so it'd look like the conversation left off where I branched). Th…

click the share chat button and open that url to clone a conversation

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your prompts in ChatGPT?

#40

Earlier 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.

I made a private blog that if something seems really valuable, I blog the prompt and output. Private so I don't waste time on the delusion of someone else reading it and everything that comes with that time wise.

Beyond that, the previous chats could practically be deleted for me. Its not like my prompts are such works of art that I couldn't recreate the thought if needed. Not to mention, Sonnet has made me not use chatGPT for about a month now so the blog is nicely divorced from the LLM flavor.

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