Prompt templates

[fargot132]

Hello
Great work !
It will be very helpful to implement prompt templates as in https://github.com/mckaywrigley/chatbot-ui
Unfortunately, this project is abandoned, but the idea of prompt templates is very interesting.
The next step of improvement may be the sharing of prompt templates between users.

[danny-avila]

Thank you! There are already "presets" which have a similar function, but don't have the filling in of variables. They are actively being shared in our discord: https://discord.gg/nXdfrht9DF

This is not to say this wouldn't be implemented, it's a great idea, and I would like people to have the option to fill them out in-line in the textarea box, which is an improvement over chatbot-ui. I'm wrapping up ChatGPT plugins and Anthropic support, then diving into file indexing/retrieval as my priorities in the roadmap.

A PR for this would be very welcome.

[secondtruth]

I think this would be a great feature.

Presets are a pretty nice feature but lack the full flexibility of "saved prompts" / "prompt templates", which in contrast to presets:

• are in principle always available to every model without tediously defining them for each model individually.
• can also be used in the middle of a conversation instead of just at the beginning.

A library of saved prompts could also come in handy to fill in the System Prompt field while creating presets or assistants. Instead of manually entering or copy-pasting the prompt, one could click on an "Import" button and choose a prompt from the library.

Further improvements for this hypothetical Prompts Library could include:

• Ability to save prompts from past chats in the library
• Ability to import prompts into the library from a community source like https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts

[TheRealAlexV]

I would also fully support this. I switched from using chatgpt plus coupled with superpowers gpt to librechat and really miss having a library of popular promts with variable expansion. I still hop over to chatgpt from time to time because of the library of promts that I commonly use there. The presets feature is very confusing for this use case.

[danny-avila]

[TheRealAlexV]

It’s in the side panel, do you not see this? How did you update?

I do not see that in my side panel:

To update I:

1. docker-compose down
2. git pull
3. docker-compose pull
4. docker-compose up -d

[danny-avila]

Are you pointing to a specific image? It looks like you are not on the latest version just from the footer text alone

[danny-avila]

It’s not part of the rc1 tag, it’s on latest commits to the main branch so the latest tag

[TheRealAlexV]

Thank you Danny! It was the image tag. My docker override was using image: ghcr.io/danny-avila/librechat:latest which is what the .example file gives you as a template which makes sense since the documentation should probably always point to the stable non-dev version. Might be good to note how to switch to dev though(if I didn't miss it in the docs somewhere).

I commented out the line in my override so it's using the image from the parent docker compose file which is image: ghcr.io/danny-avila/librechat-dev:latest.