[Feature Request] Add support for ChatGPT function calling

[jtmoulia]

ChatGPT recently added support for "function calling" where you can provide jsonschema specifying functions and their typed arguments. The model can then decide to return json as "function calls" if appropriate.

It would be amazing if chatgpt-shell could be extended to support functions in the configuration as well as response

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/gpt/function-calling

Thanks for a super useful lib!

[xenodium]

Thanks for filing! Not had a chance to look into it. Will share more once I learn more.

[xenodium]

It's been quite some time now since filed. While I still haven't looked into it, has function calling generally been proven useful? Reckon still worth investigating?

[jtmoulia]

Function calling / tool support does seem both useful and standardized, but I've come to feel like it'd add a lot of surface area to this lib.

It would allow for chatgpt-shell to integrate with other tools, but each integration would require infrastructure, e.g. to use web search would require jsonschema and code to hit a search engine / get results on request.

Given the potential for fragmentation if every lib tries to implement a custom function calling stack, it might be worth wait and see if another Emacs lib develops out function calling and piggy-backing off that.