AI Programming for JavaScript Developers

Learn how to harness the power of AI in your JavaScript work and remain on the cutting edge of technologies in your career.

Introduction

• Learn to build AI-enhanced applications
• Understanding AI in the JavaScript ecosystem
• What you should know

1. Creating the App

• Installing OpenAI with npm
• Generating an API key
• Choosing and setting a language model

2. Working with Prompts

• Writing functions
• Working with streams
• Creating a prompt
• Refactoring functions with code prompts
• Setting templates
• Challenge: Customizing questions
• Solution: Customizing questions

3. Incorporating APIs

• Accepting user input with readline
• Creating image descriptions based on a URL
• Transcribing audio files with OpenAI
• Building a Node app to transcribe audio
• Using DALL-E 3 for image generation

4. Customizing the Assistants API

• Using the Assistants API playground
• Creating an assistant in a Node application
• Adding messages to threads
• Running and parsing the assistant response

5. Utilizing LangChain Features

• Setting up a LangChain project
• Creating a chat template
• Using runnable sequences
• Combining multiple chains

Conclusion

• Next steps