Working With Assistants

Introduction

Assistants combine specific model, tools, instructions and configuration to provide out-of-the-box chat experience with specific focus, capabilities, knowledge and scope. They are simply chats that are already configured & ready to carry on specific conversations or fulfill specific tasks.

When creating a new assistant or editing an existing one, you'll find all the options that you can also find & freely modify in the Chat section, such as:

• model selection
• tools selection
• instructions input

You may treat the Chat section as a playground where you freely experiment with models, tools and instructions and where you eventually find a nicely working setup that you want to go back to in order to get specific job done (or let others do so) - that's when the Assistants section comes in.

Chat & History

Once you have an assistant, you may start chatting with it by picking the Chat button. This will open the same chat view as in the Chat section, just with all the configuration options replaced by the assistant name next to the Send button. Clicking on it allows to edit the assistant.

In the assistant chat view you will also find the same History button which will open the left-side listing of previous chats, but only ones belonging to that assistant. Assistant chat history is separate from general chat history, so they also do not appear in the history of the general Chat section.

Sharing & Embedding

Assistants may also be:

• used by others with billing covered - learn more on the  Sharing Assistants page
• placed on your own website - learn more on the  Embedding Assistants page

Assistant Tools

Once you get a proper grasp of assistants, you may consider to take the next step into assistant reuse and start turning your assistants into tools. This powerful feature opens a whole world of possibilities by letting you use your refined, specialized & focused assistants in other chats or assistants. Check out the  Turning Assistants Into Tools page for more information.