Using JSON Schema with Google Gemini / / No Comments Back about a month ago, I wrote up a post on how to generate JSON results using Google Gemini, "JSON Results with Google Gemini Generative AI API Calls". While you should read that post first, the process basically boiled down to: Setting the response type of the result to JSON. Without this, Gemini will return JSON but encoded in Markdown. Using a System Instruction to give directions on the "shape" of the JSON, i.e., use this key and that key. While these techniques work well, recently yet another feature was added that makes this even better, JSON schema support. JSON Schema is an abstract way to define the shape of JSON and can be really useful in validation. The website... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Gemini, Google, JSON, Schema, using
JSON Results with Google Gemini Generative AI API Calls / / No Comments Forgive the somewhat alliterative title there, but today’s post covers something that’s been on my mind since I started playing with Google Gemini, specifically, how to get the results of your API calls in JSON. To be clear, the REST API returns a result in JSON, but I’m talking about the content of the result itself. Before I continue, a quick shot out to Allen Firstenberg who has been helping me off and on with Google Gemini stuff. Anything I get wrong though is entirely my fault. 😜 Ok, so before I go on, let’s look at a typical result. Take a prompt like so: "What is the nature of light". Pass this to Gemini via the API, and the result you get, once you... more → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: Calls, Gemini, Generative, Google, JSON, results