Welcome to prompttools created by Hegel AI! This repo offers a set of open-source, self-hostable tools for experimenting with, testing, and evaluating LLMs, vector databases, and prompts. The core idea is to enable developers to evaluate using familiar interfaces like code, notebooks, and a local playground.

In just a few lines of codes, you can t

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Something that’s been on my mind is flipping the relationship between the human and language model when going through a creative process. It seems that we often want to ask questions of language models, and we expect them to brainstorm ideas or give us answers, but I wonder if another fruitful pattern here is having models ask questions of us .

Retrieval practice prompts should be

tractable

. To avoid interference-driven churn and recurring annoyance in your review sessions, you should strive to write prompts which you can almost always answer correctly. This often means breaking the task down, or adding cues.

Instead, you need to instruct your participants—explicitly and specifically—what they’re supposed to be talking about. And just saying it out loud isn’t enough, because they’ll inevitably forget and go off track. You need to write it somewhere visible (usually a slide) and leave it there for the duration of the exercise. Prompts don’t need to be co

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