Summary: I want completions to communicate through a tool call, in order for it to respond and call tools at the same time
I am a beginner familiarizing myself with agentic applications.
I built a basic (gratitude journaling) chatbot with the completions API (I only learned about the assistant API later).
I have the following challenge: Completions will either respond or call tools. But cannot respond and call tools at the same time.
My attempt at solving it: Make “responding” a tool and add it to the tool list. Idea: My main API call is only the “brain” and no longer the "mouth.
Weirdly, this worked partly at some point but now I cant replicate the success.
Are there better ways to achieve this?
This is the primary call, the “brain”:
def primary_agent(chat_history=None):
tools = [
llm_tools.send_message_to_user,
llm_tools.tag_gratitude_sentiment,
llm_tools.update_stats,
llm_tools.send_reflection,
llm_tools.share_journal_entry,
llm_tools.send_random_prompt
]
specific_prompt = f'''
To respond, use nothing but the tool "respond_to_user". Do not communicate any other way.
Use the tool tag_gratitude_sentiment to tag the user's gratitude statement for categorization.
Use the tool update_stats to update the user's gratitude journaling stats.
Use the tool send_reflection to give the user a brief, concise retrospective on a certain period of gratitude practice.
Use the tool share_journal_entry to offer the user to share their gratitude statement with the person its about. This tool is to be used if the user expresses gratitude towards a specific person, a friend or family member.
Use the tool send_random_prompt to generate a creative prompt for gratitude journaling.
# Initialize the system message that sets the behavior of the assistant
messages = [
{
"role": "system",
"content": general_system_prompt + specific_prompt
}
]
# Loop through the chat history and add each message to the messages list
if chat_history:
for entry in chat_history:
# Append each message with the correct role ('user' or 'assistant') and content
messages.append({
"role": entry['Role'], # 'user' or 'assistant'
"content": entry['Content']
})
# Now call the OpenAI API with the dynamically created messages list
completion = client.chat.completions.create(
model="gpt-4o-mini",
messages=messages,
tools=tools
)
response = completion.choices[0].message
return response
'''
Tools:
send_random_prompt = {
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "send_random_prompt",
"description": "Gives a prompt as inspiration for gratitude journaling"
}
}
send_reflection = {
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "send_reflection",
"description": "Looks back at the users history of gratitude journal entries and reflects on it",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"start_date": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The start date of the period to look back on. Formatted"
},
"end_date": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The end date of the period to look back on"
}
},
"required": ["start_date"]
}
}
}
share_journal_entry = {
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "share_journal_entry",
"description": "Offers the user to share their gratitude statement with the person its about. This tool is to be used if the user expresses gratitude towards a specific person, a friend or family member.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"message": {
"type": "string",
"description": '''
The text message that will be shared with the person. It starts with an introduction giving the person context about the gratitude statement.
Example #1
Original gratitude message: "I am grateful for my mum having supported me all my life. I understand that I can be very lucky to have had this in my life."
message: "Hey, I just wanted to share this with you. I wrote this in my gratitude journal today and thought you should know: 'I am grateful for my mum having supported me all my life. I understand that I can be very lucky to have had this in my life.'"
'''
}
},
"required": ["message"]
}
}
}
send_message_to_user = {
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "send_message_to_user",
"description": "Sends a message to the user. Use this tool to respond and communicate with the user.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"message": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The message to send to the user"
}
},
"required": ["message"]
}
}
}
tag_gratitude_sentiment = {
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "tag_gratitude_sentiment",
"description": "Tag the user's gratitude statement with a sentiment or category.",
"parameters": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"tag": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The sentiment or category to tag the gratitude statement with"
}
},
"required": ["tag"]
}
}
}
update_stats = {
"type": "function",
"function": {
"name": "update_stats",
"description": "If the user's message is a gratitude statement, update the user's journaling stats."
}
}
Here’s a chat session