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llm — Interact with Large Language Models (LLMs) via remote APIs and models that can be installed and run

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Problem

How to use the llm command: Interact with Large Language Models (LLMs) via remote APIs and models that can be installed and run on your machine. More information: <https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/help.html>.

Solution

llm — Interact with Large Language Models (LLMs) via remote APIs and models that can be installed and run on your machine. More information: <https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/help.html>.

Set up an OpenAI API Key:

llm keys set openai

Run a prompt:

llm "{{Ten fun names for a pet pelican}}"

Run a system prompt against a file:

cat {{path/to/file.py}} | llm {{[-s|--system]}} "{{Explain this code}}"

Install packages from PyPI into the same environment as LLM:

llm install {{package1 package2 ...}}

Download and run a prompt against a model:

llm {{[-m|--model]}} {{orca-mini-3b-gguf2-q4_0}} "{{What is the capital of France?}}"

Create a system prompt and save it with a template name:

llm {{[-s|--system]}} '{{You are a sentient cheesecake}}' --save {{sentient_cheesecake}}

Have an interactive chat with a specific model using a specific template:

llm chat {{[-m|--model]}} {{chatgpt}} {{[-t|--template]}} {{sentient_cheesecake}}

Code Snippets

Set up an OpenAI API Key

llm keys set openai

Run a prompt

llm "{{Ten fun names for a pet pelican}}"

Run a system prompt against a file

cat {{path/to/file.py}} | llm {{[-s|--system]}} "{{Explain this code}}"

Install packages from PyPI into the same environment as LLM

llm install {{package1 package2 ...}}

Download and run a prompt against a model

llm {{[-m|--model]}} {{orca-mini-3b-gguf2-q4_0}} "{{What is the capital of France?}}"

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tldr-pages: common/llm

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