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Creating a basic assistant chat in Python and Node.js

Creating a basic assistant chat in Python and Node.js - OpenAI API Tutorial

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Creating a basic assistant chat in Python and Node.js

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- All right, let's put all this together into a functioning app. In the exercise files, you'll find a file called interactive.py or .js depending on your coding preference. And this example builds out a basic AI chat app that brings in whatever assistant you refer to. So the app doesn't create a new assistant. Instead, it asks for an assistant ID. And whatever ID you paste in will be the assistant you're working with. When you're working with the app, anytime you're chatting, it goes into a thread, and anytime you stop the app and then start again, a new thread is started. So that way you can have an ongoing chat, but it only lasts for as long as the app is running, which is what people expect when they talk to these types of apps. Let's take a look. Here, I have the Python example open under Python interactive.py. The very first thing you'll see here is you need to input your assistant ID. You can get that ID by…

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