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llm-sort (via) Delightful LLM plugin by Evangelos Lamprou which adds the ability to perform "semantic search" - allowing you to sort the contents of a file based on using a prompt against an LLM to determine sort order.

Best illustrated by these examples from the README:

llm sort --query "Which names is more suitable for a pet monkey?" names.txt

cat titles.txt | llm sort --query "Which book should I read to cook better?"

It works using this pairwise prompt, which is executed multiple times using Python's sorted(documents, key=functools.cmp_to_key(compare_callback)) mechanism:

Given the query:
{query}

Compare the following two lines:

Line A:
{docA}

Line B:
{docB}

Which line is more relevant to the query? Please answer with "Line A" or "Line B".

# 8:50 pm / llm, plugins, generative-ai, ai, llms, python