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COURSE PRE-REQUISITES
  • Use your own laptop.
  • Have a GitHub account
  • Launch a modern browser. (Use edge or chrome for the best experience)

For this course you are using a custom playground build on-top of the Azure OpenAI Service. In this playground you will have the opportunity to play with the prompts and learn how to interact with OpenAI Models.

Authenticate​

Your course instructor will provide you with an access key that will be valid during the course session. Setup is now a quick 2-step process.

  1. Login with GitHub at top-right.
  2. Copy the API Key, then navigate to the Playground.
  3. Enter the access-key at top-right and click Authorize to login. PE4GenAI Playground

Explore​

On successful login, the playground application should update to show a Logout button at top-right, as shown below. To validate your setup, enter a query in the user prompt input box (region 2) and click Send. You should get a conversational response in the chat session are (region 3) as shown below.

Let's take a minute to familiarize ourselves with the different regions of this app.

  • Region 1️⃣ | Once authorized, shows the event profile.
  • Region 2️⃣ | User prompt - used to enter text questions for AI
  • Region 3️⃣ | Conversation - interleaved user questions & assistant responses
  • Region 4️⃣ | Configuration - tunable parameters, execution stats
  • Region 5️⃣ | System message - sets assistant persona, base context
  • Region 6️⃣ | Function calling - save custom functions to set context

Tips​

1. Clear Chat Sessions​

The output of the model is influenced by the contents of the chat session. To ensure that the output of the model is not influenced by previous prompts, click the "Clear Chat" button before entering each new prompt.

2. Copy-Paste Snippets​

In a prompt-based exercise, you will find the prompt input is provided to you in a code-fenced snippet as shown below. When viewing this page in a browser, click within the code-fenced region below to see a copy icon appear at the right. Click it to copy the prompt into your clipboard - then paste using Ctrl-V (or equivalent) command into the text input region in Playground.

This is the prompt text you need to enter into the chat prompt input field.