How are you managing your prompts?

Question

How are you cataloging, maintaining, versioning your prompts? Are you relying primarily on one toolchain where they are organizing by default in the toolchain interface (but locked in the toolchain)? Or are you using some other mechanism? Are you using a mechanism that enables you to share and permission them with team members, colleagues, friends?The intent with this inquiry is to improve my own workflow(s) and potentially those of others interested in this topic. Thank you!

paulcole · Accepted Answer

I don't do this at all. I find that being obsessed with optimizing prompts is exactly what's not needed at this stage of AI's development.
I just prompt as I go and find that the "cost" of prompting again to get a better output is lower than the cost of having some system for cataloging, maintaining, and versioning my prompts.
I might be wrong but I'm getting good results out of LLMs.

sebastiennight · Answer

To clarify, you seem to be asking about end-users storing their (eg. ChatGPT) prompts, not software devs managing the prompts they use in the API?These are two very different questions.

runjake · Answer

Past discussion, which may be helpful:Ask HN: How do you manage your prompts in ChatGPT? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41479189I'm curious to see how people's workflows have changed.Us, we manually catalog them in well-named Markdown files and folders and store in a git repo. I would like a more taxonomical approach.

hchak · Answer

promptlayer is great. Highly recommend for prompt versioning, play grounding, etc.