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Zero-shot prompting with reviews

As well as answering questions, transforming text, and generating new text, OpenAI's models can also be used for classification tasks, such as categorization and sentiment analysis.

In this exercise, you'll explore using OpenAI's chat models for sentiment classification using reviews from an online shoe store called Toe-Tally Comfortable.

This exercise is part of the course

Working with the OpenAI API

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Exercise instructions

  • Define a prompt to classify the sentiment of the statements provided using the numbers 1 to 5 (positive to negative).
  • Create a request to the Chat Completions endpoint to send this prompt to gpt-4o-mini.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

client = OpenAI(api_key="")

# Define a multi-line prompt to classify sentiment
prompt = """____:
1. Unbelievably good!
2. Shoes fell apart on the second use.
3. The shoes look nice, but they aren't very comfortable.
4. Can't wait to show them off!"""

# Create a request to the Chat Completions endpoint
response = client.chat.completions.create(
  model="gpt-4o-mini",
  messages=[{"role": "user", "content": ____}],
  max_completion_tokens=100
)

print(response.choices[0].message.content)
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