Baby Prompts

Providing super basic prompt techniques and chains for OpenAI's response API.

Overview

👉 The library allows you to easily create different prompt techniques (see below) and choose formatting output.

A full list of examples is available here.

Installation

Install the library by typing

npm install baby-prompts

Prompt techniques examples

Before you can invoke any prompt, you need to configure your prompt by choosing a model.

import { getPrompt, invoke, outputText, developer } from 'baby-prompts';

// Get the prompt function with custom options
const prompt = getPrompt('You are a helpful assistant.', {
  model: 'gpt-4.1-mini',
  temperature: 0,
});

The default model is gpt-4.1-mini.

Follow the OpenAI documentation for choosing models and options.

Here are some examples of how to use different prompting techniques:

• Zero-shot prompting
• Few-shot prompting
• Prompt chains

1. Zero shot prompting

Here is a simple example of invoking a prompt.

prompt(developer('Be a funny assistant'), 'Tell me a joke') // setup the prompt
  .then(invoke) // execute it
  .then(outputText) // extract the output_text from the response
  .then(console.log); // print it

If you prefer to async/await, here is the same code.

const result = await invoke(
  prompt(developer('Be a funny assistant'), 'Tell me a joke')
);
console.log(outputText(result)); // or result.output_text

2. Few shot prompting

Multiple messages can be combined before invocation, and you can choose the user (default), developer, or assistant roles. Note that this is still a single prompt (a single invoke method is called).

prompt(
  developer('As a question following this style'),
  user('How are you?'),
  assistant('How are you, human?'),
  user('What time is it?'),
  assistant('What time is it, human?'),
  user('Where are you from?'),
  assistant('Where are you from, human?'),
  user('What is your age?') // expected: "What is your age, human?"
)
  .then(invoke)
  .then(outputText)
  .then(console.log);

3. Prompt chaining

With prompt chaining, you can chain the output of a prompt directly into the input of the next one.

promptChain(
  prompt(user('What is 1+1?')),
  prompt(user('Say that without using numbers.')),
  prompt(user('Add an emoji at the end.'))
)
  .then(outputText)
  .then(console.log);

Please note that when using Chain, you do not need to call the invoke method manually, as it is called for you by the promptChain function.

Structured output

You can structure the output of a prompt just before invocation. For that, you need to use the zod library, which is already included as a dependency.

import { z } from 'zod';

const Person = z.object({
  name: z.string(),
  age: z.number(),
});

const PeopleList = z.object({
  people: z.array(Person).length(10), // exactly 10 people
});

// prompt
prompt(
  developer('You are a helpful assistant'), //
  'Write a list of 10 people with name and age'
)
  .then(jsonFormatter(PeopleList))
  .then(invoke)
  .then(json)
  .then(console.log);

Requirments

This code requires that you have a .env file with the variable OPENAI_API_KEY set to your own OpenAI API key. You can find an API key here.

Credits

Developed by MAKinteract with ♥️.