🧠 Hacker News Digest: AI, Prompt Engineering & Dev Trends

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🗣️ Post 1: Ask HN: LLM Prompt Engineering

As posted by: Scotrix | 🔥 Points: 4

🔗 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45289941

💬 Summary

I’m working on a project where I need to extract user intents and move them to deterministic tool/function/api executions + afterwards refining/transforming the results by another set of tools. Since gathering the right intent and parameters (there are a lot of subtle differences in potential prompts) is quite challenging I’m using a long consecutive executed list of prompts to fine tune to gather exactly the right pieces of information needed to have somewhat reliable tool executions. I tried this with a bunch of agent frameworks (including langchain/langgraph) but it gets very messy very quickly and this messiness is creating a lot of side effects easily.

So I wonder if there is a tool, approach, anything to keep better control of chains of LLM executions which don’t end up in a messy configuration and/or code execution implementation? Maybe even something more visual, or am I the only struggling with this?

🎯 Final Takeaways

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