🧠 Building Your First Custom ChatGPT with OpenAI’s API

🧠 Building Your First Custom ChatGPT with OpenAI’s API

Summary:
A step-by-step tutorial on building a custom AI assistant using OpenAI’s GPT API, tailored to specific workflows (like a code reviewer, writing assistant, or customer support bot).

You’ll Learn:

  • How to set up an OpenAI API key
  • How to structure prompts and responses
  • Using function calling and retrieval augmentation
  • Deploying the assistant on a simple web app

Outline:

  1. Setting up your environment (openai, dotenv, etc.)
  2. Writing your first prompt template
  3. Handling API responses in Python
  4. Adding context memory (short-term conversation history)
  5. Bonus: Deploying to Streamlit or Flask