[HN Gopher] Ask HN: How do you manage your prompts in ChatGPT?
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Ask HN: How do you manage your prompts in ChatGPT?
I use ChatGPT regularly for a lot of different tasks. For example,
coding, health Q&A, and summarizing docs. The different prompts
stack up in the sidebar which becomes very difficult to manage. For
example, I frequently have to refer back to a prompt that I wrote
previously. But I usually give up looking for it because of the
tedious scroll and search process. I was wondering if there is an
easier way. How do you manage your prompts in ChatGPT?
Author : nabi_nafio
Score : 37 points
Date : 2024-09-08 09:16 UTC (1 days ago)
| lavren1974 wrote:
| joplin
| Terretta wrote:
| Things like:
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| https://lmstudio.ai/
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| https://untimelyunicorn.gumroad.com/l/machato
|
| http://msty.app/
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| https://www.macgpt.com/
|
| Or, of course:
|
| https://llm.datasette.io/
| viraptor wrote:
| Also https://chatboxai.app/ if you don't like Msty.
| extr wrote:
| Apple Notes app
| throw_pm23 wrote:
| 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.
| trav4225 wrote:
| Hah! This resonated with me. Maybe I'm just "getting old", but
| I fail to understand the value of 99% of this stuff...
| outofpaper wrote:
| LLMs are tools that allow us quick access to stochastic text.
| They are dream machines that snatch what might be and other
| maybes' from the ether. They are filtered monekys on
| typewriters and they are wonderful in a pinch.
|
| Also to answer the question of what I use for managing
| prompts and other short blobs of text I need quick access to:
| Espanso.
| andix wrote:
| 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 generation).
|
| I think one of the most promising approach would be some kind of
| user scripts for extending the official ChatGPT UI. (user scripts
| in the browser with some tool like Violentmonkey, FireMonkey, or
| anything similar to the good old Greasemonkey). I don't use it
| though, and I don't know if there are any good extensions for
| ChatGPT.
| H8crilA wrote:
| Why 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.
| t-writescode wrote:
| 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 fine!
| FractalHQ wrote:
| I use Claude and Cursor because they're so much better and don't
| require any fancy prompting to not completely suck.
|
| For snippets, I use the system built into Raycast. For non-
| programming questions, I just ask Perplexity as I'd ask a person
| and its orders of magnitude better than Google or any single LLM.
| pryelluw wrote:
| I built my own prompt management system. It's similar to a cms
| except there's connections and taxonomic relationships between
| prompts and generated replies. Haven't seen anything like it yet.
| Too busy to put up online for others to use.
| djbusby wrote:
| I have a similar webapp front for the APIs. And it stores the
| conversation thread like the Chat UI.
|
| And I add some meta data to the prompt: tags, notes, links
| (just Markdown)
|
| Wouldn't mind getting integrated into my NextCloud.
| sixhobbits wrote:
| I use gpt through the api hooked up to a Telegram bot
|
| I save common prompts with /create blahbot you
| always blah
|
| And then I can ask any bot something by saying
| /blahbot tell me about blah
|
| Kind of hacky and misses some of the qol features built into
| chatgpt but it's super convenient as I use telegram a lot on
| phone and desktop anyway and it's got pretty good search
| functionality (and cheaper to pay per token than the flat fee for
| me plus friends and family can use it too)
| pulvinar wrote:
| I do a frequent data-export and then keep that text open in an
| adjacent tab to search.
|
| The feature is kinda hidden: preferences (upper-right corner) >
| Settings > Data controls > Export data. You then get email and
| download it from that. Unzip and open chat.html.
| mentos wrote:
| I have trello cards where I paste a link to the chatgpt4 session
| so I can reuse the context weeks or months later without having
| to spend time searching for it.
| micromacrofoot wrote:
| in the native apps you can search past conversations
| pps wrote:
| I'm using Raycast, not ChatGPT, but I think you can simply create
| custom GPTs for each use case (with prompt as a system
| instruction) and then use @ in the default new chat to quickly
| switch to the desired bot.
| spikey_sanju wrote:
| Simple. If you're using an Apple device, go to Settings -
| Keyboard - Text Replacement - Add Your Prompt.
|
| For example,
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| Replace: !rw
|
| With: "Rewrite this using simple words: {your_content}"
|
| So, whenever I type "!rw", it replaces the text with "Rewrite
| this using simple words: {your_content}".
|
| You don't need to switch between multiple tabs, use an extension,
| or refer to the documentation again and again.
| sandspar wrote:
| I 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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