I’ve developed an app integrating an Assistant through the OpenAI interface. Accessing the Assistant by ID and initiating a thread without additional instructions works flawlessly, adhering to my predefined guidelines. However, problems occur when I attempt to append extra instructions to a thread.…

Welcome to the developer forum, It looks like you are not appending messages to the threads, that seems to be just creating a new thread with it’s initial instruction set. Basically, you can append messages to threads, and you can change the instructions, but if you want to add more instructions, …

Hmm, so in this case I would have to do it like this? const run = await openai.beta.threads.runs.create(thread.id, { assistant_id: assistant.id, instructions: assistant.instructions + custom_instructions });

Yea, worth giving that a try, maybe append a space in the middle.

Hi, can you tell me what if I don’t want to add the instructions while running the threads runs function I want to update the instructions for all threads? One use case is once I publish my bot and in production, I want to fix the instructions and don’t want to lose the threads that my users have al…

Hi @Foxalabs I am curious - what is the difference in doing the approach you defined above and using client.beta.assistants.update() Does the .update() endpoint update the saved assistant and the approach above only update the assistant for the specified thread?

It was just that the instructions were being overwritten, so I suggested appending the new instruction to the old one as a test.

guys, does ‘runs’ instructions still works for you? They suppose to override the assistant base instructions, but instead if I add instructions like this: const run = await openai.beta.threads.runs.create(thread.id, { assistant_id: req.iparams.assistantId, instructions: "start your repl…

We have been discussing this issue here: Assistants API feature Adjustment| Thread run Optional Instruction - #2 by nikunj The short version answer to the question here: The optional instruction when initiating a run is meant to override the Assistant’s Instruction

thanks, @derrickob . Yeah, I get it that it’d rewrite the assistant’s instruction, but the problem was, it won’t follow the new (provided, re-written) instructions. But eventually, it turned out, that the new instructions are actually works, but for some reason, assistant just did not want to follow …

Hello everyone, I wanted to inform you that in the recent openai@4.24.1 update, a new field named ‘additional_instructions’ has been added for Runs. This feature enables you to add to the existing assistant instructions rather than replacing them entirely. This might be useful for those who are look…

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tonikukoc.no7 December 27, 2023, 4:36am 12

this might help.

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