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+# OpenAI API Basics
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+## Introduction
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+This example introduces you to the fundamentals of using the OpenAI API. We will cover the following topics:
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+* How to setup your connection to OpenAI
+* Configuring the system prompt
+* Build a conversation loop
+* Send messages to OpenAI and receive the agent's response
+
+## Exercises
+
+* Make yourself familiar with the code in this folder.
+* Think about an assistant that would be relevant to your business or personal life. Adjust the [system prompt](./system-prompt.md) to match your assistant's purpose. Test the program and see how well it performs.
+* Try to break out of the limits of the system prompt. What happens if you ask the assistant to do something that is not related to the system prompt?
+
+## Advanced Exercises
+
+* Setup an GPT 4o-mini model and compare the results with the GPT-4 model.
+* Convert the console application to an Express web application.
+* Use streaming to receive messages from the OpenAI API step by step.