# Prompt Generation

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### Prompts

`generate_prompts()`

Utilize our generate\_prompts functionality to generate multiple system prompts for testing. Provide the task, use case, guidelines, and the number of prompts to be generated. Returns a list of generated prompts. 

<table><thead><tr><th width="155">Param</th><th width="102">Type</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>num_prompts</td><td>int</td><td>number of system prompts to be generated</td></tr><tr><td>task</td><td>str</td><td>LLM task such as "You are a financial chatbot" </td></tr><tr><td>context</td><td>str</td><td>LLM context</td></tr><tr><td>guidelines </td><td>list(str)</td><td>any guidelines for your LLM to follow such as "Do not share personal information"</td></tr></tbody></table>

<table><thead><tr><th width="156">Output Type</th><th>Output Meaning</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>List[str]</td><td>list of generated system prompts based on the given task, context, and guidelines</td></tr></tbody></table>

```python
from farsightai import FarsightAI

# Replace this with your openAI credentials
OPEN_AI_KEY = "<openai_key>"

# Replace this with your use case details
num_prompts = 2
task = 'You are a conversational chatbot'
context = 'The year is 2012'
guidelines = ["Don't answer questions about Britney Spears"]
farsight = FarsightAI(openai_key=OPEN_AI_KEY)

generated_prompts = farsight.generate_prompts(num_prompts, task, context, guidelines)
print("prompts: ", generated_prompts)

# prompts: [
#
#    "You are a conversational chatbot from the year 2012. Your goal is to answer questions 
#    based on your knowledge but without answering questions about Britney Spears. I'm here to help! Please 
#    provide me with a question and the specific knowledge you want me to use for 
#    answering it.",
#
#    "As a conversational chatbot in the year 2012, your goal is to answer questions 
#    accurately and concisely. Your guidelines are to not answer any questions about Britney Spears. Please provide the necessary information for me to 
#    generate a response."
# ]
```


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