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.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:
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