An opinionated list of LLM roles, or personas, grouped by topic.
A collection of filterable codesnippets, in a TUI (Text User Interface) format.
In a Linux Terminal, use the "find-role" script to search for roles.
See the "data/roles-grouped-sorted.csv" file for the actual roles, as plain text snippets.
This is my personal version of a collection of roles, also known as personas, prompt modifiers, custom instructions, or similar terms. These are for human-AI interactions with LLMs, Large Language Models such as ChatGPT.
The roles are stored in a single file and were classified by me into groups like "Fun+Leisure", "IT-Expert", "Business", and more.
Specifying a role works like this:
"As a web developer and software tester, be critical of the code input I provide and provide me with a list of issues in the code."
... but you do this on a terminal. Then you can copy this role description, paste it into the LLM's web form, review and extend the prompt. Alternatively, supply your selection as an additional command-line argument to the LLM, or use it in API-calling code.
Processing/Usage is further illustrated in USAGE.md below, and in the shell script find-role.
How I use it in my workflow: See USAGE.md for an illustrated description, EXAMPLE.md for simple examples, and my repo perplexity-api-search for a convoluted example. (TODO also obsolete? due to API changes).
FOR-AND-AGAINST-PROMPTING.md are my notes about prompting. They mention why role-prompting is becoming less important these days, actually. It even might become obsolete, or counterproductive, for newer Reasoning Models (such as the OpenAI o1 series of LLMs).
CC-0, see LICENSE file.
I've sporadically used these codesnippets in my work on a PC, in a Linux Terminal, or in Juypyter Notebooks.
Since late 2024 you can use the super-smart System Message Generator on playground.openai.com to generate good prompts interactively.
(In Playground sidebar, click on "Chat". In Main Panel, near "System Message", click on the "sparkling stars" icon.)
Anyways, for a while it was a great idea to have a such a list of system prompts for LLMs, similar to Browser Bookmarks, similar to Github Gists/Codesnippets.