Play your LLM like an instrument

Karthik Chikmagalur demonstrates gptel's presets feature, showing how to customize and pipe LLM interactions directly within Emacs.

Some experiments with using LLMs in Emacs, and a demo of gptel's presets feature. We can do better than a linear, immutable, top-down chat interface to LLMs. gptel is an LLM client for Emacs. (gptel.org) A preset is a named collection of gptel settings and behaviors applied to an LLM query as a unit: they can change any aspect of LLM interaction on the fly, providing a flexible, customizable interface for most (text-based) things you'd need an LLM for. 00:13 LLMs as text transformations 01:19 LLM clients as shell commands 02:03 Software with too many options 03:00 Configuration files and (finally) a gptel preset 03:10 The tutor preset 04:31 Inside the Tutor preset 05:12 The Introspect preset 06:52 The JSON preset 07:35 Interlude I: How presets work 08:52 Redirection: source | gptel | destination 10:04 Source: the Expand preset 11:20 The Visible-Text preset 11:55 The Include preset 12:48 Interlude II: Adding dynamic behavior to presets 14:14 Destination: the Notify preset 14:51 The Rewrite preset 17:05 The Annotate preset 21:18 Presets as "agents" 24:37 Problems with the presets UI 26:02 Interlude III: Resources for presets 27:22 LLM UIs in Emacs: this ain't it Emacs packages showcased in this demo: - github.com/karthink/gptel - github.com/karthink/gptel-agent - github.com/karthink/gptel-annotate - github.com/karthink/gptel-preset-collection - github.com/kmontag/macher Emacs packages and settings used in this demo - Presentation software: github.com/positron-solutions/dslide - Visuals: github.com/minad/org-modern and github.com/rnkn/olivetti - Fancy Flymake UI: github.com/konrad1977/flyover - Font: Monaspace Neon - Emacs theme: ef-reverie #emacs #llm #llms #gptel