PromptTools

Dev tools

llm evaluation testing

SHOW HN2023

211points
24comments
#264of 3,109 in 2023
Top 9%of 2023 by points

How HN took it

LovedMost comments that take a side are positive

5 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 0 critical, out of 13 comments about the project. Thread score +0.34.

Idea: 2 for, 0 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Useful tooling for the LLM evaluation problem

    From 3 comments
    • Super cool, the need for tooling like this is something one realizes pretty quickly when starting to build apps that leverage LLMs.
      catlover76 on HN
    • Something like this is going to be needed to evaluate models effectively. Evaluation should be integrated into automated pipelines/workflows that can scale across models and…
      neelm on HN
    • This looks great, thanks See also this related tool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36907074
      tikkun on HN

Objections

  • LLM auto-evaluators risk over-trust and circular scoring

    From 2 comments
    • I like the support for Vector DBs and LLaMa-2. I'm curious as to whether and what influences compelled PromptTools, and how it differs from other tools in this space. For…
      fatso784 on HN
    • What does 'top 50%' responses mean here, though? You'd need to have a ground truth of how 'good' each score was to calculate that --and if you had ground truth, no need to use an…
      fatso784 on HN

Requests

  • Add Qdrant support

    From 1 comment
  • Add OpenAI function calling support

    From 1 comment
    • I like that it's not limited to single prompts and allows to have chat messages. It would be great if `OpenAIChatExperiment` could also handle OpenAI's function calling.
      mmaia on HN
  • Provide a Dockerfile

    From 1 comment
    • I'll put in a friendly request for a Dockerfile in the repo. I've been trying out AI tools as test cases for our supply chain security platform and had to cobble a Dockerfile…
      robszumski on HN

Questions

  • How does it differ from other tools and what influenced it?

    From 1 comment
    • I like the support for Vector DBs and LLaMa-2. I'm curious as to whether and what influences compelled PromptTools, and how it differs from other tools in this space. For…
      fatso784 on HN
  • Where do thumbs up/down feedback values go and are they persisted?

    From 1 comment
    • Similar tool I was about to look at: https://github.com/promptfoo/promptfoo I've seen this in both tools but I wasn't able to understand: In the screenshot with feedback, I see…
      politelemon on HN

Alternatives named

  • ChainForge

    From 1 comment
    • I like the support for Vector DBs and LLaMa-2. I'm curious as to whether and what influences compelled PromptTools, and how it differs from other tools in this space. For…
      fatso784 on HN
  • promptfoo

    From 1 comment
    • Similar tool I was about to look at: https://github.com/promptfoo/promptfoo I've seen this in both tools but I wasn't able to understand: In the screenshot with feedback, I see…
      politelemon on HN

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