OpenAI based QAChat App : AskQuestion

A simple C# .NET QAChat app to use with OpenAI's GPT-3.5 API.

Requirements

This library is based on .NET Core 6.0, so it should work across .NET Framework >=4.7.2 and .NET Core >= 3.0. It should work across console apps, winforms, wpf, asp.net, etc. It should work across Windows, Linux, and Mac, although I have only tested on Windows so far.

Getting Started

Install from NuGet

Install package OpenAI from Nuget. Here's how via commandline:

Install-Package OpenAI

Authentication

To provide Authentication to OpenAI:

1. Log in OpenAI web site
2. Go to Personal / View API Keys page
3. Create new secret key and copy it
4. Add user secrets management to your project as shown in figure below
5. Create APIKey-Value pair in secret.json file

{ 
  "APIKey": "INSERT YOUR API KEY HERE"  
} 

Create single-file deployment and executable

Bundling all application-dependent files into a single binary provides an application developer with the attractive option to deploy and distribute the application as a single file. For details: Single-file deployment and executable

According to this logic, I convert the QAChat App to a single-file executable in below steps.

1. Add below code blog to App csproj file

<Project Sdk="Microsoft.NET.Sdk">

  <PropertyGroup>
    <OutputType>Exe</OutputType>
    <TargetFramework>net6.0</TargetFramework>
    <PublishSingleFile>true</PublishSingleFile>
    <SelfContained>true</SelfContained>
    <RuntimeIdentifier>win-x64</RuntimeIdentifier>
    <PublishReadyToRun>true</PublishReadyToRun>
  </PropertyGroup>

</Project>

2. Run dotnet publish -r win-x64

You can find your executable file in ...\AskQuestion\AskQuestion\bin\Debug\net6.0\win-x64 folder (it can change depend on your file structure)