Question 1

What is Paraprompt?

Accepted Answer

Paraprompt is an open prompt registry — a community-curated library of AI prompts, prompt techniques and prompt templates for every major model (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Deepseek, Llama, Mistral, and image/video/audio models). Browse, fork, share, and run prompts directly from the hub or via our Chrome extension.

Question 2

What is a prompt registry?

Accepted Answer

A prompt registry is to AI prompts what npm is to JavaScript packages or GitHub is to source code: a central, searchable, versioned home where prompts are discovered, shared, attributed and improved by a community. Paraprompt is the open prompt registry for the LLM era.

Question 3

Which AI models does Paraprompt support?

Accepted Answer

Paraprompt is model-agnostic. Prompts are tagged with the models they were designed for — including ChatGPT/GPT-4o, Claude (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku), Gemini Pro, Deepseek, Llama 3, Mistral/Mixtral, Qwen, Grok, Perplexity, and image/video models like Midjourney, Stable Diffusion, DALL·E, Sora and Runway.

Question 4

What prompt-engineering techniques are covered?

Accepted Answer

Every prompt is tagged with one of five canonical techniques: Basic (zero-shot), Few-Shot, Chain-of-Thought (CoT), Tree-of-Thought (ToT), and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). Each technique has a dedicated guide on Paraprompt explaining when and how to use it.

Question 5

Is Paraprompt free?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Browsing, searching, downloading and sharing prompts is free. Account creation is free. The browser extension is free.

Question 6

How is Paraprompt different from PromptBase or FlowGPT?

Accepted Answer

Paraprompt is open and community-first: prompts are tagged by technique, ranked by community signals (likes, power, funny), grouped into collections, and accessible from anywhere via our extension. There is no marketplace gate — every prompt is free to use and remix.

Question 7

Can I save my own prompts to Paraprompt?

Accepted Answer

Yes — sign in, create prompts in the hub, organise them into collections, and access them from any browser tab via the Paraprompt Chrome extension. You decide whether each prompt is private or public.

Question 8

What is the Paraprompt Chrome extension?

Accepted Answer

The Paraprompt Chrome extension is a side panel that surfaces your prompts on every page — including ChatGPT, Claude.ai, Gemini and any text input. Trigger any prompt by shortcut, fill in template variables on the fly, and paste straight into the model's UI.

Question 9

What's the difference between zero-shot, few-shot, and chain-of-thought prompting?

Accepted Answer

Zero-shot gives the model a direct instruction with no examples. Few-shot provides 2–8 worked examples to anchor format and tone. Chain-of-Thought adds an explicit "think step by step" trigger so the model reasons before answering — best for math, logic and multi-step problems.

Question 10

When should I use RAG instead of a longer prompt?

Accepted Answer

Use RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) any time the answer depends on data the model wasn't trained on — your docs, tickets, code, or anything that changes after the model's cutoff. Pair RAG with explicit grounding instructions and citations for the highest factual accuracy.

Question 11

Does Paraprompt support image, video and audio prompts?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Prompts on the hub support text, image, audio and video previews — so a Midjourney prompt shows the rendered image, a Suno prompt plays the generated audio, and a Sora prompt embeds the video output.

Question 12

Can I use Paraprompt prompts commercially?

Accepted Answer

Most prompts on Paraprompt are shared by their authors for free reuse. Each prompt page shows attribution; check the author's note for any specific terms.

Prompt-engineering techniques, demystified

Basic / Zero-Shot Prompting

Few-Shot Prompting

Chain-of-Thought (CoT) Prompting

Tree-of-Thought (ToT) Prompting

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

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