How to write a GPT prompt programmatically?

Question

I have a template prompt similar to this one:

prompt = f"""
Write a poem about the topic delimited by triple backticks if it starts with a consonant, 
otherwise say 
"foo". 
Topic: ```{topic}```
"""

and a list of topics:

topics = ['cuddly pandas', 'ugly bears', 'sketchy Elons']

I would like to query the OpenAI API with the same base prompt, for each topic in topics. How can I do that? This works, but it seems a bit inelegant to have to redefine the f-string at each iteration of the for loop:

for topic in topics:
    prompt = f"""
    Write a poem about the topic delimited by triple backticks if the first word of the topic  starts with a 
    consonant, 
    otherwise say 
    "foo". 
    Topic: ```{topic}```
     """
    print(prompt)

Did you try ask chatgpt? – Filipe Teixeira Jul 26 '23 at 07:44 — Filipe Teixeira, Jul 26 '23 at 07:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 28 '23 at 01:06

If I understand your problem correctly, you can try something like this:

topic_str = """
Write a poem about the topic delimited by triple backticks if the first word of the topic  starts with a 
consonant, 
otherwise say 
"foo". 
Topic:```"""

for topic in topics:
    prompt = topic_str+f"{topic}"+"```"
    print(prompt)

How to write a GPT prompt programmatically?

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