Show HN: Prompting LLMs in Bash scripts

Prompting Large Language Models In Bash Scripts I’ve been ex­per­i­ment­ing with us­ing LLMs lo­cally for gen­er­at­ing datasets to test Harper against. I might write a blog post about the tech­nique (which I am grandiosely call­ing “LLM-assisted fuzzing”), but I’m go­ing to make you wait. I’ve writ­ten a lit­tle tool called ofc that lets you in­sert Ollama into your bash scripts. I think it’s pretty neat, since it (very eas­ily) lets you do some pretty cool things. For ex­am­ple, you can swap out the sys­tem prompt, so if you want to com­pare be­hav­ior across prompts, you can just toss it in a loop: subreddits=( "r/vscode" "r/neovim" "r/wallstreetbets" ) for subreddit in " ${subreddits[@]} " ; do echo "++++++++ BEGIN $subreddit ++++++++" ofc --system-prompt "Assume the persona of a commenter of $subreddit " "What is your opinion on pepperjack cheese." cat done Or, you can in­struct a model to prompt it­self: ofc --system-prompt " $(ofc "Write a prompt for a large language model ... Read full article.