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Prompt Engineering for Beginners - Tutorial 1 - Introduction to OpenAI API

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OpenAI Docs: https://platform.openai.com/docs/introduction Anthropic Docs: https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/docs PromptLayer: https://promptlayer.com/ DevSprout: https://www.youtube.com/c/devsprout Source Code: https://github.com/buckyroberts/AI-Playground

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API has three different roles for chat completions: system, assistant, and user.']}, {'end': 911.192, 'start': 766.433, 'title': 'Understanding openai api response', 'summary': 'Explains the content, finish reason, and usage details of the response from the openai api, highlighting the stop finish reason and the importance of tracking usage for cost estimation and development insights.', 'duration': 144.759, 'highlights': ["The finish reason 'stop' indicates a natural stopping point and signifies proper functionality, similar to the 200 status code, ensuring no errors or limit issues.", 'The usage details, including prompts, tokens, and completion tokens, are crucial for estimating costs and gaining insights into usage during development.', 'The ability to track usage through the OpenAI dashboard, including a usage graph, provides valuable insights for monitoring and cost management.']}], 'duration': 211.982, 'thumbnail': 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'src': 'embed', 'start': 933.816, 'weight': 1, 'content': [{'end': 942.421, 'text': "And that means that there's the time, the latency between our requests, what happens out there on the OpenAI server, and it coming back to us.", 'start': 933.816, 'duration': 8.605}, {'end': 949.145, 'text': "But in addition to that, we're dealing with a GPT model that it has to take a little time to process all this information.", 'start': 942.861, 'duration': 6.284}, {'end': 951.146, 'text': 'So it does take a second or two.', 'start': 949.205, 'duration': 1.941}, {'end': 958.212, 'text': 'and there are ways to increase the user experience or make the user experience a little bit better.', 'start': 951.886, 'duration': 6.326}], 'summary': 'The gpt model takes a second or two to process information, impacting user experience.', 'duration': 24.396, 'max_score': 933.816, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/GrX4WfT5FI4/pics/GrX4WfT5FI4933816.jpg'}, {'end': 1020.535, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 988.204, 'weight': 2, 'content': [{'end': 990.227, 'text': "So let's take a look at what we got back here.", 'start': 988.204, 'duration': 2.023}, {'end': 1000.448, 'text': 'We can see that this is very similar to what we were just looking at with that doc string where we had some example output.', 'start': 992.182, 'duration': 8.266}, {'end': 1005.072, 'text': "So it's going to have the ID, the object, the created timestamp, the model.", 'start': 1001.009, 'duration': 4.063}, {'end': 1010.475, 'text': "In this case, because we use GPT 3.5 Turbo, it's going to say that that's the one that we used.", 'start': 1005.112, 'duration': 5.363}, {'end': 1012.217, 'text': 'And then it has the versioning at the end there.', 'start': 1010.536, 'duration': 1.681}, {'end': 1020.535, 'text': "The choices, again, because we didn't pass in any in argument to determine that there would be more than one choice, then it defaults to one.", 'start': 1013.032, 'duration': 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object where the role is assistant and the assistant is responding to our question with the content.', 'start': 1027.578, 'duration': 8.343}], 'summary': 'The default setting resulted in one choice, represented by an object with an index of zero, containing a message from an assistant role.', 'duration': 22.889, 'max_score': 1013.032, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/GrX4WfT5FI4/pics/GrX4WfT5FI41013032.jpg'}, {'end': 1112.596, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1069.671, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 1074.035, 'text': 'and then the usage here is actually the same as the example that we saw in our Doc string.', 'start': 1069.671, 'duration': 4.364}, {'end': 1076.678, 'text': 'Where we have a total of 36 tokens.', 'start': 1074.496, 'duration': 2.182}, {'end': 1083.245, 'text': "awesome. so let's pull this down a little bit and go back and look at our code.", 'start': 1076.678, 'duration': 6.567}, {'end': 1086.888, 'text': 'one thing that I want to address a little more here is', 'start': 1083.245, 'duration': 3.643}, {'end': 1090.953, 'text': 'the role of the messages list?', 'start': 1088.61, 'duration': 2.343}, {'end': 1092.054, 'text': 'okay so.', 'start': 1090.953, 'duration': 1.101}, {'end': 1094.717, 'text': 'or the the role of the roles of the message list?', 'start': 1092.054, 'duration': 2.663}, {'end': 1097.2, 'text': "we're going to talk about the roles for each of these messages.", 'start': 1094.717, 'duration': 2.483}, {'end': 1098.201, 'text': 'how about that?', 'start': 1097.2, 'duration': 1.001}, {'end': 1105.969, 'text': 'so the first message that we have here, the first object representing a message in our messages list, has a role key,', 'start': 1098.201, 'duration': 7.768}, {'end': 1109.553, 'text': "and you'll notice both of these objects have that, and even in our response we have that.", 'start': 1105.969, 'duration': 3.584}, {'end': 1112.596, 'text': 'So the role for the initial one is system.', 'start': 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message roles defaults to one if no argument is passed, resulting in one object with an index of zero.', 'The impact of temperature on response variability is explained, with lower values resulting in more consistent responses and higher values leading to more variation and creativity.', "The significance of message roles in providing context for the assistant's future responses is discussed, with the system role occurring only once at the beginning to set the tone or context for the assistant's future responses.", 'The example in the Doc string contains a total of 36 tokens, indicating the usage of tokens in the provided example.']}], 'duration': 221.818, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/GrX4WfT5FI4/pics/GrX4WfT5FI4911192.jpg', 'highlights': ['The process of running a Python file to make an API call to the OpenAI server involves dealing with latency and processing time, which takes a few seconds to run.', 'Ways to enhance user experience 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'So this is helpful as review.', 'start': 1298.151, 'duration': 1.861}, {'end': 1305.974, 'text': 'And if you want to dive a little bit deeper, of course, you have access to way more than what we talked about in this tutorial.', 'start': 1300.292, 'duration': 5.682}, {'end': 1309.476, 'text': 'So this is a good place to bookmark and come back to as needed.', 'start': 1306.374, 'duration': 3.102}, {'end': 1312.957, 'text': 'Meanwhile, over here, we have access to the playground.', 'start': 1310.496, 'duration': 2.461}, {'end': 1316.837, 'text': 'By the way, all the links to these will be included in the description of this video.', 'start': 1313.477, 'duration': 3.36}, {'end': 1319.798, 'text': "But this is the playground where, let's just say,", 'start': 1317.277, 'duration': 2.521}, {'end': 1328.46, 'text': "you're in an environment where you don't have immediate access to Node.js or Python to be able to run this code in a editor or some type of IDE.", 'start': 1319.798, 'duration': 8.662}, {'end': 1329.36, 'text': 'No problem.', 'start': 1328.92, 'duration': 0.44}, {'end': 1331.22, 'text': 'You can still experiment with this.', 'start': 1329.74, 'duration': 1.48}, {'end': 1334.501, 'text': 'If you have an API key set up, you can go to the playground here.', 'start': 1331.3, 'duration': 3.201}], 'summary': 'Tutorial provides information on response object and access to playground for experimentation.', 'duration': 42.973, 'max_score': 1291.528, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/GrX4WfT5FI4/pics/GrX4WfT5FI41291528.jpg'}, {'end': 1450.579, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1409.627, 'weight': 5, 'content': [{'end': 1417.071, 'text': 'because we talked about tokens and I kind of briefly explained that one token is roughly four characters of text in the common English language.', 'start': 1409.627, 'duration': 7.444}, {'end': 1419.093, 'text': 'Uh, or common English text.', 'start': 1417.091, 'duration': 2.002}, {'end': 1422.477, 'text': 'And so the translate to roughly three quarters of a word.', 'start': 1419.654, 'duration': 2.823}, {'end': 1425.7, 'text': "So like, let's say you have 100 tokens, that's around 75 words.", 'start': 1422.777, 'duration': 2.923}, {'end': 1430.986, 'text': 'But if you wanted a nice visualization of how this actually works, then I want to show that to you here.', 'start': 1426.121, 'duration': 4.865}, {'end': 1437.29, 'text': "So if I click on show example, here on this tokenizer page, It's going to give me some text.", 'start': 1431.066, 'duration': 6.224}, {'end': 1440.252, 'text': 'It even gives me an emoji and it gives me some numbers, things like that.', 'start': 1437.43, 'duration': 2.822}, {'end': 1450.579, 'text': 'And you can see here how many tokens it pulled from this text or how many tokens this text is equal to,', 'start': 1440.753, 'duration': 9.826}], 'summary': '100 tokens is roughly equivalent to 75 words in english text.', 'duration': 40.952, 'max_score': 1409.627, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/GrX4WfT5FI4/pics/GrX4WfT5FI41409627.jpg'}, {'end': 1525.904, 'src': 'embed', 'start': 1494.644, 'weight': 0, 'content': [{'end': 1498.674, 'text': 'into its own token, and then four, five, and then six, seven, eight, and then nine, zero.', 'start': 1494.644, 'duration': 4.03}, {'end': 1506.269, 'text': "So you can look at the token IDs, and you can see that, essentially, if there's two matching tokens, they have the same token ID.", 'start': 1499.764, 'duration': 6.505}, {'end': 1509.391, 'text': 'But each one of these tokens is given its own ID.', 'start': 1507.01, 'duration': 2.381}, {'end': 1513.855, 'text': "We're going to talk a lot more about this more advanced stuff in future videos.", 'start': 1509.411, 'duration': 4.444}, {'end': 1518.518, 'text': "But for now this is just a good introduction to what's happening behind the scenes,", 'start': 1513.915, 'duration': 4.603}, {'end': 1525.904, 'text': "what a token is and how it's used as a measurement of your requests and the response that come back to you from the API.", 'start': 1518.518, 'duration': 7.386}], 'summary': 'Tokens are assigned unique ids, and matching tokens share the same id. tokens are used to measure requests and responses from the api.', 'duration': 31.26, 'max_score': 1494.644, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/GrX4WfT5FI4/pics/GrX4WfT5FI41494644.jpg'}], 'start': 1133.45, 'title': 'Utilizing chat completions api and understanding tokens and their measurement', 'summary': 'Discusses the use of chat completions api to modify assistant roles and tones, maintain conversation history, access different models for efficient responses, with the aim to increase effectiveness and efficiency, and provides insights into token measurement, equating one token to roughly four characters of english text, with examples and insights into common patterns.', 'chapters': [{'end': 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without immediate access to specific programming environments, facilitating learning and exploration.']}, {'end': 1543.299, 'start': 1409.627, 'title': 'Understanding tokens and their measurement', 'summary': 'Discusses how tokens are measured, with one token roughly equal to four characters of text in english, and demonstrates the process with examples, highlighting the breaking down of text into tokens and common patterns, providing insights into the underlying process.', 'duration': 133.672, 'highlights': ['The average token is roughly equivalent to four characters of text in the common English language, translating to approximately three-quarters of a word, providing a clear understanding of the measurement.', 'The demonstration of tokenization process with text examples and visualizations, highlighting the breaking down of text into tokens and common patterns such as numbers, emojis, and long words, offering a practical insight into the process.', 'Explanation of token IDs and their matching, indicating that each token is given its own ID, setting the foundation for understanding the advanced concepts to be covered in future videos.', 'Encouragement for viewers to ask questions and providing resources for further engagement, fostering interaction and continuous learning within the community.', 'Closing remarks expressing gratitude and anticipation for the next video in the series, demonstrating a well-rounded conclusion and engagement with the audience.']}], 'duration': 409.849, 'thumbnail': 'https://coursnap.oss-ap-southeast-1.aliyuncs.com/video-capture/GrX4WfT5FI4/pics/GrX4WfT5FI41133450.jpg', 'highlights': ['The system can be modified to act as different roles, enabling customized responses', 'Access to different models like GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 Turbo 16K for advanced responses', 'Conversation history is maintained for more efficient and effective responses', 'The average token is roughly equivalent to four characters of text in English', 'Demonstration of tokenization process with text examples and visualizations', 'Availability of a playground for users to experiment with the API', 'Explanation of token IDs and their matching, setting the foundation for advanced concepts', 'Encouragement for viewers to ask questions and providing resources for further engagement', 'Closing remarks expressing gratitude and anticipation for the next video']}], 'highlights': ['Learning to use Python for interacting with the OpenAI API provides more programmatic control and granular interaction with the model, enabling the creation of chatbots, image generators, recommendation engines, and code review tools.', 'The tutorial covers how to interact with the OpenAI API using Python, focusing on the chat completions API for conversational engagement with GPT models like GPT 3.5 Turbo or GPT-4.', 'The model parameter includes IDs for available models such as GPT-3.5 Turbo and GPT-4, with GPT-4 being more creative and powerful but incurring additional cost in terms of tokens and credits.', 'The process of running a Python file to make an API call to the OpenAI server involves dealing with latency and processing time, which takes a few seconds to run.', 'The OpenAI API has three different roles for chat completions: system, assistant, and user.', 'The impact of temperature values on output randomness is explained, with higher values leading to more random and creative outputs, while lower values result in more focused and deterministic responses', 'The ability to track usage through the OpenAI dashboard, including a usage graph, provides valuable insights for monitoring and cost management.', 'The response received from the OpenAI server is similar to the example output with details such as ID, object, created timestamp, model, and versioning.', 'The system can be modified to act as different roles, enabling customized responses', 'The average token is roughly equivalent to four characters of text in English']}