chronicgiardia/openai-cookbook

Examples and guides for using the OpenAI API

OpenAI Cookbook

The OpenAI Cookbook shares example code for accomplishing common tasks with the OpenAI API.

To run these examples, you'll need an OpenAI account and associated API key (create a free account).

Most code examples are written in Python, though the concepts can be applied in any language.

Recently added 🆕 ✨

• How to format inputs to ChatGPT models [Mar 1st, 2023]
• Using Vector Databases for Embeddings Search with Redis [Feb 15th, 2023]
• Website Q&A with Embeddings [Feb 11th, 2023]
• File Q&A with Embeddings [Feb 11th, 2023]
• Visualize Embeddings in Weights & Biases [Feb 9th, 2023]
• Retrieval Enhanced Generative Question Answering with Pinecone [Feb 8th, 2023]

Guides & examples

• API usage
  • How to handle rate limits
    • Example parallel processing script that avoids hitting rate limits
  • How to count tokens with tiktoken
  • How to stream completions
• ChatGPT
  • How to format inputs to ChatGPT models
• GPT-3
  • Guide: How to work with large language models
  • Guide: Techniques to improve reliability
  • How to use a multi-step prompt to write unit tests
  • Text writing examples
  • Text explanation examples
  • Text editing examples
  • Code writing examples
  • Code explanation examples
  • Code editing examples
• Embeddings
  • Text comparison examples
  • How to get embeddings
  • Question answering using embeddings
  • Semantic search using embeddings
  • Recommendations using embeddings
  • Clustering embeddings
  • Visualizing embeddings in 2D or 3D
  • Embedding long texts
• Fine-tuning GPT-3
  • Guide: best practices for fine-tuning GPT-3 to classify text
  • Fine-tuned classification
• DALL-E
  • How to generate and edit images with DALL-E
• Azure OpenAI (alternative API from Microsoft Azure)
  • How to use ChatGPT with Azure OpenAI
  • How to get completions from Azure OpenAI
  • How to get embeddings from Azure OpenAI
  • How to fine-tune GPT-3 with Azure OpenAI
• Apps
  • File Q and A
  • Web Crawl Q and A

Related resources

Beyond the code examples here, you can learn about the OpenAI API from the following resources:

• Try out the API in the OpenAI Playground
• Read about the API in the OpenAI Documentation
• Discuss the API in the OpenAI Community Forum
• Look for help in the OpenAI Help Center
• See example prompts in the OpenAI Examples
• Play with a free research preview of ChatGPT
• Stay up to date with the OpenAI Blog

Contributing

If there are examples or guides you'd like to see, feel free to suggest them on the issues page.