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Re: Show HN: Symphony – Use GPT-4 to call functions in sequence

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Post by michaelmior »

greggh wrote: post #29

First thing I thought when reading the title was "some AI for Symphony PHP, interesting". I know its hard to name things at this point, these clashes are just going to happen with so many projects over the last 50 years. But at some point I think clashing with a project in such heavy use is just a detriment to the brand.

It's worth noting that the PHP framework is spelled "Symfony."

Re: Show HN: Symphony – Use GPT-4 to call functions in sequence

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Post by jrmyphlmn »

collinc777 wrote: post #30

Love this! I’m an fp-ts and xstate fan and am happy to see them in this usecase. My intuition tells me that state machines with llm directed function calling is going to be a huge unlock. One thing I’m curious about is narrowing the scope of accessible functions based on a state machine that is designed to match the business domain. This might involve machine to machine communication which I know XState supports

Thanks!

> state machines with llm directed function calling is going to be a huge unlock

This was my intuition as well, glad you're able to resonate with that :)

> One thing I’m curious about is narrowing the scope of accessible functions based on a state machine that is designed to match the business domain.

This is an interesting question, I can definitely see how state machines can help with narrowing the scope of accessible functions.

Re: Show HN: Symphony – Use GPT-4 to call functions in sequence

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Post by lukasb »

wyozi wrote: post #16
lukasb wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, this knows when to stop calling GPT-4, which seems non-trivial.

ChatGPT does this automatically, if you pass in `function_call: "auto"`

How would this work? Say I need multiple function calls to handle a user prompt. OpenAI will only supply one function call at a time. My understanding is that "auto" just lets it choose which function to call, but you still have to know that you need to call it multiple times, and when to stop.

Re: Show HN: Symphony – Use GPT-4 to call functions in sequence

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Post by lgas »

lukasb wrote: post #33
wyozi wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

ChatGPT does this automatically, if you pass in `function_call: "auto"`

How would this work? Say I need multiple function calls to handle a user prompt. OpenAI will only supply one function call at a time. My understanding is that "auto" just lets it choose which function to call, but you still have to know that you need to call it multiple times, and when to stop.

It can make multiple function calls. For example I have it hooked up to edit word documents, and I can say "create a word document, add a paragraph describing yourself and then add title 'xyz'" and it will make three separate function calls to do this before responding saying that it's completed the task.
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