[Feature] add preset Style/System prompt modifiers

[swyxio]

most chat ux is just one textbox.

but actually it's useful to have little toggles or dropdowns that set the chatapps to respond in certain useful ways:

• System/Role prompts
  • (None)
  • You are a programming assistant.
  • You are a chatbot for docs. Here is the following content of the docs:
  • You are a patient teacher explaining a concept to a competent but non-expert developer.
• Style prompts
  • (None)
  • Respond with valid JSON and only JSON
  • Respond with valid Python code and only Python code. No backticks.
  • Respond with a markdown table.
  • Respond in Markdown with 2-3 bullet points for each section, with important keywords, concepts, people, dates, and numbers bolded
• metaprompts
  • Help me craft a really good prompt for ChatGPT. First, ask me what I want to do. Pause and wait for my answer. Ask questions to clarify as needed. Second, once you have the information suggest a prompt that include context, examples, and chain of thought prompting where the prompt goes step by step through the problem. Third, show what your response as ChatGPT would be to the prompt. Fourth, ask if the user has any suggestions and help them revise the prompt

etc

questions

• whats a nice UX/design for this?
• how to make these system/style prompts customizable and saved by user?

[swyxio]

@moismat thoughts?

[jmxo]

interesting! sounds easy to do. prompts are just strings that can be injected before what already gets injected now

ux can be: icon in superprompt area, hover/click -> shows popup with list of prompts and a link/icon that sends to preferences where you can edit prompts

https://github.com/smol-ai/menubar/assets/90765930/3adf4181-8677-49ce-9338-d9c8ce0b768d

idea 1:

click one of them -> gets inserted have to click to insert it, no toggle inserted into textarea as normal text, everything is editable pro: no magic. user can edit/sort everything in the textarea

idea 2:

every prompt has a toggle currently active prompts are displayed in the superprompt area with a special style, greyed out, readonly, then the text the user types

to think about:

• only inject in first message?
• are we tunneling too much on developers?
• how useful really are these prompts?
• let people share their prompts somehow? a central collection, categorized?
• at some point have different "profiles", each profile has certain prompts for different use cases. I'd love to hear how people have been using it and for what exactly

[jmxo]

edit: it might be a good idea to stop and think what's the path forward for this project. is the goal to keep it as a very simple menu bar app for "quick access to chatgpt for one-off questions", or is the goal to transition into a fully fledged wrapper with more features like prompts, more models, etc?

For the latter, a few exist already with great UX for prompts (slash commands with a popup to pick a profile + load from central repo for prompts) https://github.com/lencx/ChatGPT https://github.com/mckaywrigley/chatbot-ui
https://github.com/Bin-Huang/chatbox https://github.com/chathub-dev/chathub

we probably don't want to reimplement the same thing but with a smaller window. so we need to figure out what's the niche for this project

[swyxio]

@moismat the vision is definitely to keep it smol :)

• only inject in first message? yes makes sense.
• are we tunneling too much on developers? no haha. devs all the way
• how useful really are these prompts? quite!
• let people share their prompts somehow? a central collection, categorized? they can PR in if they wish?
• at some point have different "profiles", each profile has certain prompts for different use cases. I'd love to hear how people have been using it and for what exactly interesting idea, would punt on it for now

[jmxo]

very interesting implementation:

from https://github.com/jackMort/ChatGPT.nvim