How to make API calls to get the desired result?

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I will to do my best to explain my problem.
I am a developer, I am testing the API calls using PHP, and I want to know the logic behind the API calls. I mean, if I want to paraphrase a text, what I need to send on the prompt to make to the AI to understand that I need a paraphrased text?

In the playground I can make it works, but not on a simple API call, so, I know i am missing something, but I am not pretty sure what!

I read the documentation, but i can’t find something about this.
Thank you very much for your time.

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Hi. I’m also using php mostly.
Can you give a more practical example of what you are doing? Maybe its easier to understand with more context.

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Sure. Between my post and right now, I understood the importance of the examples before to send the request to the API.
Basically I am looking to ask to AI to write a sentence using other words but keeping the meaning.
For the moment i did changes on the classes to send the examples and concatenate all the request into the prompt, but i didn’t test yet.

But basically, what I want is something like paraphrase a sentence or paragraph.

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What is the difference between the prompt you’re using in Playground versus the API call? It would help if you post both.

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It is the same! that’s the weird.
Today I changed the code and debug step by step, i sent the same playground data, and the results are totally different.
So, I am not sure what is the difference.

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Eureka!! (i hope), I think the code is working now! I tested a couple of examples and I have good results.
So, I have another doubt, if I sent examples on every API call, this examples count as tokens?

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@hstanleycrow what did you do to fix it? I am having the same problem…