"Required" numeric fields and the purpose of parameter descriptions

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@grumagargler

what are descriptions of function parameters?

They are comments, but the treatment of them is more by specialized AI model training.

Perhaps seeing how they are transformed and presented to the AI language model would be helpful.

Function Calling parameter types

However, in general, one must write their own function, with JSON data types. string number boolean null/empty object array Lets look at a demonstration of them all, how you would specify them as a “functions” API parameter; how the specification is rewritten into AI language by the endpoint; how the AI calls the function as it is specified. Function specification sent to API functions = [ { "name": "data_demonstration", "description": "This is the main function description", "…