OpenAI API: Building Assistants
34mBeginner2023-12-07
Authors

Morten Rand-Hendriksen
Senior Staff Instructor, Speaker, Web Designer, and Software Developer
Course details
OpenAI’s Assistants API allows you to create custom GPT versions with their own instructions, knowledge retrieval, and actions for highly specialized and targeted functionality to incorporate into larger products. In this course you’ll learn how to harness the power of custom GPT Assistants for everything from small personal tasks to large enterprise applications.
Learning objectives
Learn what the Assistants API is and how it works
Use the OpenAI playground to work with the Assistants API
Incorporate custom GPT Assistants in your applications
Activate RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) with a simple upload
Learning objectives
Learn what the Assistants API is and how it works
Use the OpenAI playground to work with the Assistants API
Incorporate custom GPT Assistants in your applications
Activate RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) with a simple upload
Skills covered
OpenAI APIAPIsNatural Language Processing (NLP)OpenAIGenerative AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Software DevelopmentOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Building custom AI agents with the OpenAI Assistants API
- 02 - How to use the exercise files
1. Using the Assistants API
- 03 - Assistants - GPTs, but through the API
- 04 - Creating a basic assistant in the OpenAI playground
- 05 - Adding capabilities, funcitons, and files to an assistant
- 06 - Creating assistants, threads, and runs through the API
- 07 - Assistant API endpoints
- 08 - Creating a basic assistant chat in Python and Node.js
2. Next steps
- 09 - Going further
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