Best Practices for Prompt-Chaining in Clay: Mega Prompt vs. Columns

what's the best way to prompt-chain in Clay? Put it all in one mega prompt with steps or have a series of columns - but need to keep adding the context?

7 comments

Bharat D.
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Mega prompts usually gives inaccurate results. I would say spread it over a few columns.
Ryder M.
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Bharat D. good to know - thanks! is there a way prompt chain so the second column has the same context / follows up from the first prompt?
Bharat D.
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Maybe have a separate column with the context and use/call that with all the AI columns?
Ryder M.
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hmm.. yes interesting. or maybe even just reference the first AI column
Ryder M.
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Ok, got a message back from Clay support - “Based on step 1 [/response_step1], continue with…”
Brandon G.
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Ryder M., I'd say using the JSON output helps some too when you're doing the multicolumn AI checks
Justin R.
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Sonnet 3.5 /7 is best for longer and more complex prompts. More expensive though. All other models struggle. You can also use a prompt to generate output and then another prompt for that output