Is there any sample code for interacting with assistants through python?

inventing2022 · November 17, 2023, 1:49am

I’m trying to make a chatbot through python, and the assistant api would make that MUCH easier! But I’m having trouble getting the response back from the assistant once I’ve posted the question.

6g4ws46nmd · November 17, 2023, 2:41am

Following this thread for updates from people.

jas313 · November 17, 2023, 3:22am

What do you have so far? I built a nice terminal app to interface with assistants so I might be able to help.

Uswa · November 17, 2023, 12:41pm

After you have posted the question (added the question in thread) you need to run the assistant, then keep checking the run status, after it is completed, retrieve the thread latest message. and viola you have your response back from the assistant.

This github repository has assistant API demo code in a colab notebook

links:
https://github.com/davideuler/awesome-assistant-api/blob/main/GPT-Assistant-Tutoring.ipynb

inventing2022 · November 18, 2023, 9:02pm

That is perfect! Thanks so much! But how do I integrate function calling to this code?

blitzwilli · November 22, 2023, 1:17pm

I’m also looking for an example code with a call to an external API

mgreg · November 22, 2023, 4:56pm

There are some cookbooks that help:

* Assistants API Overview (Python SDK)
* Function-calling with an OpenAPI specification

There’s also AIAPI which is similar to assistant API but is a little simpler in my opinion but I’m biased since I wrote it to help me with function calling.

jas313 · November 22, 2023, 5:49pm

github.com

jas3333/gpt_term/blob/master/lib/openlib.py

import time
import json
import requests
import random
from .searchlib import BraveSearch
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
from rich import print


class OpenAI:
    def __init__(self, api_key, brave_api):
        self.api_key = api_key
        self.brave_api = brave_api
        self.thread_id = ""
        self.assistant_id = ""
        self.assistants = []
        self.run_id = ""
        self.debug_mode = False
        self.assistant_name = ""

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Yeah I couldn’t find much out there on this topic so I just winged it. If you scroll down to the output method you can see how I setup web search through function calling.

Here is the function I added to the assistant

{
  "name": "web_search",
  "description": "Search the web for answers.",
  "parameters": {
    "type": "object",
    "properties": {
      "query": {
        "type": "string",
        "description": "Your search query"
      }
    },
    "required": [
      "query"
    ]
  }
}

You basically have to check for requires action in the run status. Since I only have one function, I have it just run the web_search method, once you get the output from that you submit it to a tool run which will basically create a new run and give the data to the assistant. The assistant will go over the data and submit its answer to the thread which will return a completed status.

bookstaber · November 26, 2023, 9:47pm

I just posted a simple demo app in Python that could get you started: GitHub - dbookstaber/OpenAI_Assistant: Simple demo of OpenAI Assistant with Functions.