PromptAlo 分享用一句話記錄提示詞修改原因的方法

Most prompt edits are reactions. A reply misses in some specific way, and a line goes in to stop it happening again. The edit is small. The reason behind it is the useful part, and it's usually gone within a week.

Edits without reasons pile up

A prompt that has been edited a dozen times becomes a list of rules with no explanations. Some still matter. Some were fixes for one odd input. From the outside they look identical, so nobody dares remove any of them, and the prompt only ever grows.

One line per edit

The fix is cheap: when you change a prompt, write one line saying why.

"Return plain text": output was pasted into a CMS that broke on markdown.
Removed the word limit: short answers were dropping the caveats.

Format: what changed, a colon, what was going wrong. Keep it beside the prompt, or at the bottom of the prompt text with a clear label so the model ignores it.

What the notes tell you

After a few months the notes show patterns. If most edits are about format, the prompt probably needs one clear output spec rather than five patches. If most are about tone, the audience may be underspecified. The notes turn a pile of fixes into a diagnosis.

For context, we make PromptAlo, a Chrome extension that saves prompts and sends them to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini in one click.

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This post was written with AI assistance and edited by the PromptAlo team.