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In this tutorial, we’ll cover dynamic context injection—a technique that ensures your chatbot always provides accurate, up-to-date answers by pulling relevant information at runtime. You’ll start with a basic chat application using the OpenAI Chat Completion endpoint and evolve it into a robust system that sources context dynamically.

1. Basic Chat Completion (No External Context)

First, observe how GPT-3.5-turbo handles a query about the 95th Academy Awards (March 2023) without any added context. Because its training data cuts off in September 2021, it won’t know about later events.
Expected response:
Without external context, the model defaults to stating its knowledge cutoff.

2. Injecting Static Context

To work around the cutoff, you can paste relevant excerpts from a trusted source directly into the prompt. For instance, from Good Morning America:
On Hollywood’s biggest night, Everything Everywhere All at Once reigned supreme, winning seven Oscars, including Best Picture.
Inject this snippet into your user message:
Output:
Static context can quickly bloat your prompt and is tedious to maintain as information changes.

3. Why You Need Dynamic Context

Manual context updates are not scalable. Instead, build a pipeline that: This dynamic context approach keeps your chatbot current without manual prompt edits.

4. Next Steps

In the following sections, we’ll demonstrate how to:
  • Generate embeddings for your documents
  • Set up and query a vector store (e.g., Pinecone, FAISS)
  • Compose the final prompt with retrieved context and call the Chat Completion endpoint
Stay tuned for the detailed implementation guide!

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