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Temperature and Top-P in Azure OpenAI: What They Actually Change
How temperature and top_p reshape token sampling in Azure OpenAI completions, why to tune one not both, and how to measure the effect before you ship.
GPT-3
15 articles
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No System Prompt Yet: Instruction Preambles on Azure OpenAI
Azure OpenAI completion models have no system role yet. How to design, budget, version and test an instruction preamble that does that job instead.
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Chain-of-Thought Prompting on Azure OpenAI: Gains, Costs and Limits
What the 2022 chain-of-thought papers show, how to apply zero-shot CoT and self-consistency on Azure OpenAI completions, and when the extra tokens don't pay.
8 min read
Few-Shot Prompts on Azure OpenAI: Choosing and Ordering Examples
How to pick, order and budget few-shot examples for Azure OpenAI completion models, with the biases to watch for and when to stop adding examples.
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Prompts Are Production Code: Four Rules for Azure OpenAI Completions
Four prompt rules that hold up against real user input on Azure OpenAI completions: positive instructions, strict formats, delimiters and roles, plus tests.
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ChatGPT: What OpenAI's New AI Chatbot Means for Developers
One week after ChatGPT's launch and it had crossed one million users—a milestone that took Netflix 3.5 years, Facebook 10 months, and Instagram 2.5 months.…
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Advanced GPT-3 Prompt Engineering: Preparing for the Next Wave of AI
The trend is clear: models are becoming more capable at following instructions and engaging in dialogue-like interactions.
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Foundation Models on Azure: Understanding Large Language Models
Foundation models are pre trained on massive datasets and can be: Used directly for various tasks Fine tuned for specific domains Used as feature extractors…
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GPT-3 Models on Azure: Understanding text-davinci-002 and Codex
Provide the optimized query with explanations.""" ERRORDIAGNOSIS = """Diagnose this error: Error: {error} Context: {context}
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Azure OpenAI Service Updates at Microsoft Ignite 2022
Azure OpenAI Service is moving toward broader preview access, with more customers being able to apply and get approved. The application process is becoming…
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GPT-3 for Enterprise: Practical Applications and Implementation Patterns
One of the most immediate applications - turning lengthy documents into concise summaries.
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Azure OpenAI Service Expansion: Bringing GPT Models to Enterprise
This isn't just "OpenAI but on Azure" - it's OpenAI made enterprise-ready. The approval process exists because Microsoft wants to ensure responsible use. Be…
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Microsoft Build 2021: GPT-3 in Power Apps and Azure AI Updates
The headline announcement for me was the integration of GPT-3 into Power Apps. You can now describe what you want in plain English, and GPT-3 generates the…
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Exploring the OpenAI GPT-3 API: Practical Patterns and Techniques
This is direct OpenAI access - enterprise Azure integration may come in the future. response = openai.Completion.create( engine="text-davinci-002"…
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Microsoft Ignite 2020: Azure, GPT-3, and the Future of AI
Microsoft Ignite 2020 was different this year - a fully virtual 48-hour event instead of the usual 5-day in-person conference. Despite the condensed format…