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