NEOPOLIS AKADEMY
Working with the OpenAI API
Technical hands-on introduction to the OpenAI API: authentication, API calls, error handling and integration best practices. Explains how to structure requests, manage cost and latency, and connect the API to existing applications.
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What you will explore
Details authentication steps and configuration for API calls, including parameter and format handling.
Explains synchronous and asynchronous call patterns, response handling and robust error management.
Covers optimizations: batching, rate limiting, caching and cost-reduction techniques for requests.
Shows how to integrate the API into an application flow while maintaining client-side coherence and resilience.
STEP BY STEP
Course programme
01Working with the OpenAI API
Explains core concepts of the OpenAI API and how to craft requests, manage conversations, and employ system messages. Covers prompt techniques, text editing and summarization, and cost considerations for practical text generation and transformation.
Overview of the OpenAI API and initial requests; essential concepts to start interacting with the API.
Prompting techniques: summarization, editing, find-and-replace and how to reason about request costs.
Designing conversational flows: roles, system messages, safety protections and how to use the assistant role to steer model output.
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