💽 Let's Mixdown 💽

Just published Mixdown: an open-source multi-syntax markup spec that I've been putting together for my AI prompt engineering.

Feel free critique, copy, remix, or add issues & PRs if you're interested.

https://github.com/galligan/mixdown

More about Mixdown ↓

Mixdown is a syntax/technique for writing AI prompts that work well in most modern LLMs. In my experience it's been easier to create more complex prompts that return reliably consistent responses.

It mixes elements of XML (structure), YAML (data), and Markdown (prose, output formats).

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The syntax allows for adding key:value pairs, which can then be used as variables within the prompt. This sets up a means to quickly swap out individual bits without reconstructing entire prompts.

Check out how GPT-4o handled this prompt (with no additional instructions):

It's still (really) early days for putting this together, and while qualitatively it's working well for me in my experience, it's by no means proven to work yet in plenty of cases.

Ultimately if the only one that gets use of it is me, that's ok, as it's been fun and super helpful so far. But I'm hoping others get some value out of it too…

So that's why I'm open-sourcing it! Hoping to see what y'all think of it. Bring on the feedback!

The syntax allows for adding key:value pairs, which can then be used as variables within the prompt. This sets up a means to quickly swap out individual bits without reconstructing entire prompts.

Check out how GPT-4o handled this prompt (with no additional instructions): https://chatgpt.com/share/67e1da7f-ec10-8000-bc57-d68c19737c86