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OpenAI API Cookbook

You're reading from   OpenAI API Cookbook Build intelligent applications including chatbots, virtual assistants, and content generators

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781805121350
Length 192 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Henry Habib Henry Habib
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Table of Contents (10) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Chapter 1: Unlocking OpenAI and Setting Up Your API Playground Environment 2. Chapter 2: OpenAI API Endpoints Explained FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Understanding Key Parameters and Their Impact on Generated Responses 4. Chapter 4: Incorporating Additional Features from the OpenAI API 5. Chapter 5: Staging the OpenAI API for Application Development 6. Chapter 6: Building Intelligent Applications with the OpenAI API 7. Chapter 7: Building Assistants with the OpenAI API 8. Index 9. Other Books You May Enjoy

Determining the randomness and creativity of generated responses using the temperature parameter

Temperature is likely to be one of the least understood parameters. Overall, it controls the creativity or randomness of text generations. The higher the temperature, the more diverse and creative the results will be – even for the same input. In practice, the temperature is set based on the use case. Applications where consistent and standard generations are needed should use a very low temperature, whereas solutions that require creative approaches should opt for higher temperatures.

In this recipe, we will learn about the temperature parameter, observing how it can be used to influence the text generations produced by the OpenAI API.

How to do it…

  1. In Postman, enter the following for the endpoint: https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions. In the request body, type in the following, and then click Send. Our prompt is Explain gravity in one sentence. Note that...
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