How to ask Open AI Chatbot from Windows Terminal

The aim of this page📝 is to duplicate the great idea from “howdoi” just instead of curated answers from Stack Overflow, I am using an Open AI chatbot.

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Feb 23, 2023

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Implementation

• For notes on the simple activation of chatGPT API in python, see OpenAI /ChatGPT — How to Use it With Python | by Tony | Jan, 2023 | Dev Genius
• The following is a primitive Python Script
• The last line makes a first argument from CLI a prompt to
• I am also auto-copying this to the clipboard using pyclip · PyPI

• For joining the prompt written in the terminal into a single variable, I’m using a bit of PowerShell in located in $profile
• that defines the function ask that I call when I need it

function ask {
    $prompt = ""
    $args | % {$prompt += $_ + " "}
    python <path\script.py> $prompt
}

Comparison

• howdoi works perfectly and deterministically and has proper attributes (use -a to get a full answer from StackOverflow)
• the following are calls directly from Windows Terminal, but porting this to Mac should be a matter of a few lines in zsh profile

howdoi format date in Postgres to yyyy-mm-dd
>>> SELECT to_char("date", 'DD/MM/YYYY') FROM mytable;

• openAI gives me a similar answer, though

▶ ask how to format date to YYYY-MM-DD in Redshift
You can use the TO_CHAR function to format a date to YYYY-MM-DD in Redshift. The syntax is as follows:

TO_CHAR(date_expression, 'YYYY-MM-DD')

For example:

SELECT TO_CHAR(CURRENT_DATE, 'YYYY-MM-DD');

LINKS

• howdoi
• OpenAI /ChatGPT — How to Use it With Python | by Tony | Jan, 2023 | Dev Genius
• pyclip · PyPI