[HN Gopher] ChainForge: An open-source visual programming enviro...
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       ChainForge: An open-source visual programming environment for
       testing prompts
        
       Author : azhenley
       Score  : 98 points
       Date   : 2023-05-24 12:11 UTC (10 hours ago)
        
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       | killthebuddha wrote:
       | I skimmed the repo, one thing that I noticed and appreciate about
       | this project is that it looks like it doesn't make any
       | assumptions about your prompts.
       | 
       | One very similar tool is https://github.com/paradigmxyz/flux.
        
       | mdaniel wrote:
       | > Open localhost:8000 in a Google Chrome browser (other browsers
       | are currently unsupported).
       | 
       | I wish they had said why that is, or created GH issues to draw
       | focus to the problems. I also wonder if they mean quite literally
       | only Google Chrome or they mean Blink-driven browsers like Edge
       | et al because Firefox and/or Safari are missing some dragy-droppy
       | something-or-other
        
         | woah wrote:
         | As important as browser compatibility is, this appears to be an
         | academic project by a postdoc, funded by the NSF, and the grant
         | probably didn't cover it.
        
           | mdaniel wrote:
           | That may be, but how much grant money does it take to keep
           | typing in the readme that said "you have to use Google Chrome
           | _because_ ... "
           | 
           | I'm open to them not knowing how to do things cross-browser
           | because that's almost an entire specialization, but no one
           | can help them to fix problems if they're not enumerated. And
           | the person best positioned to enumerate such problems are the
           | persons who were in the weeds of the project, viewing the
           | errors or getting frustrated when $foo didn't $bar on Firefox
           | when they tried it
        
       | startupsfail wrote:
       | Nice tool. I like the name choice as well. It has nice
       | associations with the forges, magic and a good medieval vibe.
        
       | flaviuspopan wrote:
       | This is incredibly nifty, thank you!
        
       | q_andrew wrote:
       | It seems like these types of tools will quickly proliferate any
       | kind of meaningful AI tooling, which makes more sense to me than
       | the idea of getting the best result from a single offhanded
       | request. I haven't used GPT a lot, but from my experience, a
       | response or prompt from earlier in the conversation can taint the
       | rest of the output since the LLM will try to keep a consistent
       | tone.
        
         | kordlessagain wrote:
         | Yes, which is why it's important to track signals for the
         | questions/asks and answers.
         | 
         | Also, the document collection and strategy for prompt building
         | is likely more important than the UI or framework.
         | 
         | I've been working on a project that uses keyterm extraction for
         | building smarter prompts for document exploration, without any
         | opinionated frameworks: https://github.com/featurebasedb/DocGPT
        
       | aiunboxed wrote:
       | Nice, good work. The Visuals are also pretty good
        
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