Working with the OpenAI API

Course overview

Explains core concepts of the OpenAI API and how to craft requests, manage conversations, and employ system messages. Covers prompt techniques, text editing and summarization, and cost considerations for practical text generation and transformation.

Overview of the OpenAI API and initial requests; essential concepts to start interacting with the API.

Prompting techniques: summarization, editing, find-and-replace and how to reason about request costs.

Designing conversational flows: roles, system messages, safety protections and how to use the assistant role to steer model output.