Hello prompt engineers,
This week, we are taking one last look at the new Assistants API. Previous blog posts have covered the Retrieval tool with uploaded files and the Code interpreter tool. In today’s post, we’ll add the askWikipedia function that we’d previously built to the fictitious Contoso employee handbook document chat.
Configure functions in the playground
We’ll start by configuring the assistant in the OpenAI playground. This isn’t required – assistants can be created and figured completely in code – however it’s convenient to be able to test interactively before doing the work to incorporate the function into the JetchatAI Kotlin sample app.
Adding a function declaration is relatively simple – click the Add button and then provide a JSON description of the function’s capabilities. Figure 1 shows the Tools pane where functions are configured: