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Adding capabilities, funcitons, and files to an assistant

Adding capabilities, funcitons, and files to an assistant - OpenAI API Tutorial

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Adding capabilities, funcitons, and files to an assistant

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- The true power of assistants is they can have capabilities beyond custom instructions. Look at this example. I've created a new assistant called HVAC manual that has a simple instruction that says, "Provide short, helpful, step-by-step instructions and problem solving related to how to operate a remote control for an HVAC system." And then if I scroll down, you'll see I've uploaded a file into the assistant using the add feature here, and this file is an operation manual for the HVAC remote control for our house. Then I've activated the retrieval tool by doing this. I'm telling the assistant anytime there's a question coming in, go retrieve information from the uploaded documents and provide them back to me in a new contextualized way. So anytime I talk to this assistant, it's responding with actual information from the document I uploaded instead of trying to just come up with information. This is a great way of…

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