Using trigger-words with AI chat

DEVONthink
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With ChatGPT particularly, in the browser interface using my OpenAI account, I have designed several lengthy prompts and then trained ChatGPT to recall and execute a prompt when a trigger-word assigned to that prompt is used. This works very well with ChatGPT in a browser.

In DEVONthink 4, when ChatGPT is configured in Settings > AI > Chat using an OpenAI key associated with my OpenAI account, the Chat does not recognize any of my trigger words. Meaning, it does not execute the underlying detailed prompt that I designed and assigned to the trigger word.

Is this a limitation of the OpenAI API?

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Exactly. Just like Custom GPTs can’t be used.

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Figured as much. (Thank you, Sam, once again.)

I can load the prompts into a Typinator macro.

Longer term, maybe we could store prompts as plain text files (one per prompt) in a designated “Prompts” group, which would be visible, by file name, in this menu:

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VERY long term, of course.

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The possibility to define prompts is actually planned for an upcoming release.

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Nice. Thank you.

Maybe that new feature would support prompting via (locally configured) trigger-word.