Hello Community, I want to share my insights in how to call multiple functions within one function API call. This is the function API schema I use: { "name": "multi_Func", "description": "Call two functions in one call", "parameters": { "type": …

Since the API change to call multiple function calls https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/function-calling , this thread is marked as solved.

Since the announcement of the integration of function call I had been looking if I could get multiple responses for a request with a single call. I think I will use this as a workaround. Thanx :slight_smile:

I tried it. It works as expected. Thanks for this. I should note however, from my testing, that adding previous conversation even in the function call is needed to maintain context. For example, if I ask “what is the event for New York”, it will give me the event. But if I continue the conversatio…

Replying the same I did on another post: You can actually specify function_call: 'none' and then specify on your prompt something like “you are an assistant that always replies with multiple function calls. Reply with straight JSON ready to be parsed.”. It works as expected.

Would you be willling to elaborate on that please?

Assuming you are referring to magalhas’ method. I think he’s basically using the ChatGPT output as a function call. Instead of outputing a natural language response. the ChatGPT would output a JSON for any and all of your functions to process. It’s more straightforward than encapsulating multiple f…

@magalhas I tried your method, but I had trouble getting a consistent format. The JSON keys change, how did you fix that?

Do you mean the format it uses? Sometimes it might be functions.functionName others straight functionName? If that’s the case you can also ask in the prompt to use a specific format that fits your code.

Isn’t that the classical (old) way of calling functions with all the problems we had to deal with in the many months before OpenAI published the function calling API? The three most severe ones always being: Despite an emphasising system message, not picking a presented function and instead answer…

You still provide functions through the proper API and from my experience it replies always in the intended format. Problem with current functions implementation is if you want more than one function to be called.

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PriNova June 19, 2023, 8:19am 4

Yes, exactly.

My examples are all one-shot examples. For conversational style, a well defined system-prompt is needed and when the user asks for several locations in an ongoing convo, GPT could be confused.

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