You Ask, I Answer: How To Structure A Prompt Library?

In today's episode, Brenda asks, how should uh anyone? I think this is a marketing of it. How does anyone structure your prompt library? How do you structure an effective prompt library? Well, how do you structure any library?

I mean, a prompt library is nothing more than a library. So, how do you structure a library? What are the different ways you would want to index that library so you can find things quickly? In real libraries, you have things like the Dewey Decimal system, because that sort of the is the easiest way to have a meta-index on top of the library. But you have things like the topic, the author, the genre, etc.

Fiction books, nonfiction books, you know, romance, sci-fi, adventure, horror, uh, you have kids' books, you have adults' books, you have cooking books, uh, you have textbooks. So those are all things in the library. What are the things you would want in a prompt library? You might have things like as this of the seven major use cases of generative AI, right? Extraction, uh, classification, summarization, rewriting, synthesis, question answering, generation.

Does your prompt fit in one or more of those categories? Right? This is an extraction prompt. This prompt you know pulls data out of RFQs. This prompt is a summarization prompt.

It it pulls it summarizes action items and meeting notes. Second is who is who is the prompt written by, right? If you're gonna have a multi-user prompt library, you probably want to know who created any given prompt. Uh, you don't want to just have it be a big mess because you might want to go back and ask the person who made it, hey, why did you make it this way? Third thing is who is the prompt for?

Every AI system has different underlying structures, right? So chat GPT works differently than Gemini, works differently than Claude, works differently than Deepsey. So you might want to specify this is a Deep Seat prompt. This is a Clawed prompt. Uh, and you might even go as far as to specify the model because some of the models are different.

A Gemini Flash prompt will behave differently than a Gemini Pro prompt. You might want to have that. You might want to have broad categories of prompts as well as the individual use cases. You might have prompts that are knowledge blocks, which are pre-baked pieces of information. I cover this in my book Almost Timeless, which can uh buy it AI for marketersbook.com.

And all of these are the different ways you would want to look at a prompt. And you know, look at my business line. Is this an accounting prompt? Is this a marketing prompt? This is a sales prompt.

What are all the different ways that you can classify a prompt? But that's the way you should structure prompt library. Now, how do you do that practically? It depends on the system you're using. But most systems like SharePoint OneNote, Evernote, Joplin, et cetera, have the ability to have tags.

So you can add multiple tags to prompt. You have this prompt is for chat GPT, and it's a finance prompt, but it's also an extraction prompt. You can just add tags. And so you can help people find things faster if you use a system that has tagging built in, and you do a good job of tagging them. Because right now, most prompt libraries that people build in existing systems don't auto-tag.

There are some that have AI attempt to apply tags, but it gets pretty hairy pretty quickly. If you're going to build a prompt library, build it with auto tagging. You'll you will save yourself a tremendous amount of time and sanity. So that's how I would structure prompt library. You also have to think about compliance, right?

So if someone says, hey, I want to audit your font library, can you produce it for them? And you can you produce the ones that are relevant? You have to think about does a prompt require access to special information? PII, personal identifiable information, seventh is protected information, protected healthcare information, finance information, law information, etc., uh, legal stuff. All of those things, if you have regulatory requirements that you're required to adhere to for the rest of your business, you probably also have them for generative AI.

Well, even if you don't think you do, you do. The easiest way to figure that out is to look at what standards you're required to adhere to for the rest of your systems. Is your CRM required to be ISO 2701 compliant? Yes or no. Is your uh is your marketing automation stuff required to be SOC 2 compliant?

Yes or no. All these existing standards, they apply to AI too. So, what you want to do is you want to think through how do I then get my prompt library and all the systems.ai to be compliant with those systems so that I don't have an auditor knocking on my door in six months, twelve months, whatever, saying, Hey, we have some issues in your department with compliance with your these global standards that the entire company certifies it is up to date on. Right? It's a really good question.

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