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LLM (system) prompts
I assume everyone here is using LLMs in one way or another. However, many people find it challenging to get satisfactory results. How do you come up with prompts that meet your expectations? Do you experiment and adjust your prompts afterwards? Do you search online for good prompts, or do you maintain your own library?
I’m considering building a prompt generator that allows you to create high-quality prompts quickly and easily. Would this be something you’d be interested in?
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Honestly, for most of my cases I can chat with AI tools almost like talking to a human, especially since Claude 3.5 Sonnet and the projects and history feature therefore I don't have a special prompt strategy other than explaining what I want in sometimes more, sometimes less normal language and then adjusting from there
I never used any specific prompts except those integrated into the Keywords Research extension for SEO research.
In most cases, I just talk to it until I get satisfactory results. For some requests I use history to enrich the experience in old threads.
It's not ideal, but I don't believe a prompt will be sufficient for specific cases, either.
The trick here is to actually measure it. How do you define that something is better in an objective way?
But yes, I would be interested in!
I insert as much detail as possible, and experiment. Also, depends which tool you are using. Since discovering Perplexity.ai the process is much less frustrating than using ChatGPT. Sometimes I use both to compare, but perplexity seems to have nailed it on the back end to act more more like a real co-pilot.
But what about instructions you can use in almost every conversation? Like; 'only give me the answer, no explanation' or 'take a deep breath before you answer' or 'ask me questions if you are not sure'. It might depend on the conversation you're having though...
tbh my needs vary a lot and if needed i just add the line or two to get better answers. I must really say that Claude nails 95% good answers and for the lasst little rest I just guide it with some instructions
I recently discovered Fabric -> github.com/danielmiessler/fab…
It's a great library of prompts that are available in CLI and scripts