currently we are allowed to only edit the prompt, while we are not allowed to delete the prompt, sometimes when we ask a prompt and many follow up prompts it becomes difficult to scroll back to the main prompt, in such cases it is useful to delete the follow up prompts and again start fresh from the main prompt
like after we are clear with the follow up questions, and we want to go back to the main question and branch out on a different question it becomes easier to do so by deleting all follow up questions other wise it would require us to scroll back
painfully looking for the main prompt
Agree, this is critical capability, it must be possible to remove prompts or answers from chat or composer. The reason is that sometimes the AI misinterprets the request or hallucinates or uses out of date info and then keeping that ‘inaccurate’ content confuses follow up questions and increases context. Claude especially has an issue when hitting the context limit that it starts asking questions if the user wants to do what the user told it to do in the first place.
If you find the earliest prompt you want removed and edit it to be the new prompt you wish to send it, the history from there onwards will be removed, effectively branching off!
The only thing that may be missing here is the ability to see the old history, as of now it’s overwritten with the new prompt.
Yes, that is a partial workaround. Unfortunately sometimes later corrections may have been done on the code and we would not want to lose those, therefore the request to delete specific parts of thread. Some AI tools allow that and I use it often when i find LLMs making issues (hallucinating or otherwise erroring). It would really be great to have the ability to remove specific prompts and answers.
Thanks for the idea, I’ve added it to our feedback tracker as I can see the use for being able to edit/delete specific parts of a thread, to better help the AI answer the next time you send it a prompt.
