Customize OpenAI prompt

[sibbl]

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Please provide a concise description of the problem that would be addressed by this feature.

I'd like to customize the OpenAI prompt.

There are many things, which it doesn't do well in German. Like "1 garlic glove" in German ("1 Knoblauchzehe") is not parsed into its 3 parts by OpenAI (which would be [1, glove, garlic] or in German [1, Zehe, Knoblauch])).

Please provide a concise description of the feature that would resolve your issue.

As I don't think, that it will be possible to create one main prompt for all locales or even custom decision of users, I'd suggest to allow users to enhance the prompt.

It's not necessary to let users modify the whole prompt, but maybe a "custom instructions" part would be nice.

Please consider and list out some caveats or tradeoffs made in your design decision

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[michael-genson]

I think making the prompt configurable is a great idea. Maybe make the examples overwrite-able

[jrutski]

This is a great idea - it would also allow for dynamic parsing for things like volume > weight conversion. It could address 3881

Both the URL parsing and image parsing prompts.

[themadcodger]

I would also love this as I frequently import recipes from a site that includes average price in the ingredients, so I have to manually delete those prices from each ingredient after parsing.

[ovizii]

I'm also keen on this feature, want to experiment with automatic translation into English while parsing.

[lipkau]

Hey everyone,
first-time contributor here 👋

I was looking into this question too and couldn’t really find a good answer.
I did come across this* discussion, which looks promising, but it’s not available yet.

So, I ended up writing my own little script. Turned it into a small open-source project (with a Docker image) that you can spin up alongside Mealie if you want.

Here’s the repo: lipkau/mealie_translate

Mods, please feel free to take this down if sharing personal projects isn’t cool.

(originally posted on: #5170)