From the course: Advanced Prompting with GitHub Copilot

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From basic to conversational AI

From basic to conversational AI

- [Instructor] Within Visual Studio Code and GitHub Copilot, you have very basic interactions. And in here we have a session with Visual Studio Code and simple interactions will, well, get you so far. One of the things that I tend to do is to explain that simple questions, simple prompts, will get you simple answers, or a different way to put it, and here I'm going to create a new file, and I'm going to call it example. I'm going to do this with Python, but it really doesn't matter what it is. You see that you can get a suggestion saying "Generate code" or "Select language", "Start typing to dismiss or don't show this again". It really doesn't matter. Now, the current way of interacting with AI Copilot is with this new chat window that will be open by default. You don't necessarily need to be using this, as we'll see, there's other ways of interacting. But let's add an extremely simple prompt. Now notice that we…

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