Adding assistant messages
Chat models are great for creating conversational applications, but they can be further improved by providing part of a conversation for the model to build on.
Improve this geography tutor application by including this example student prompt and ideal model response in the messages:
- Example Question:
Give me a quick summary of Portugal. - Example Answer:
Portugal is a country in Europe that borders Spain. The capital city is Lisboa.
This exercise is part of the course
Working with the OpenAI API
Exercise instructions
- Add the example question and answer provided as a user-assistant pair in the messages sent to the model.
- Example Question:
Give me a quick summary of Portugal. - Example Answer:
Portugal is a country in Europe that borders Spain. The capital city is Lisboa.
- Example Question:
Hands-on interactive exercise
Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.
client = OpenAI(api_key="")
response = client.chat.completions.create(
model="gpt-4o-mini",
# Add a user and assistant message for in-context learning
messages=[
{"role": "system", "content": "You are a helpful Geography tutor that generates concise summaries for different countries."},
____,
____,
{"role": "user", "content": "Give me a quick summary of Greece."}
]
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)