Visual Basic 6.0

Prove Stateful Multi-Turn Conversation

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This example is to prove that the 2nd request in a conversation is part of a stateful multi-turn conversation. The 2nd request asks for information provided in the 1st request. Visual Basic 6.0

Dim success As Long
success = 0

'  This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
'  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

Dim ai As New ChilkatAi

'  The provider can be "openai", "google", "claude", "deepseek", "xai", or "perplexity".
'  Support for additional providers will be added in future versions of Chilkat.
ai.Provider = "google"

'  Use your provider's API key.
ai.ApiKey = "MY_API_KEY"

'  Choose a model.
ai.Model = "gemini-3.6-flash"

'  Create a new conversation to be maintained locally in memory.
'  If the conversation is the first to be created, it is also automatically selected.
Dim systemMsg As String
systemMsg = "You are a helpful assistant"
Dim developerMsg As String
developerMsg = ""
Dim conversationName As String
conversationName = "test_conversation"
success = ai.NewConvo(conversationName,systemMsg,developerMsg)

'  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'  Our first request will establish a secret that we'll ask for in the 2nd request.
'  Add a text input.
success = ai.InputAddText("Please remember this: The word I'll ask for later is BlubberFish.  What's the word?")

'  Ask the AI for text output.
success = ai.Ask("text")
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print ai.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

'  Note: The inputs accumulated through one or more calls to Input* methods are cleared when the Ask method returns with success.

'  Get the text response.
Dim sbResponse As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = ai.GetOutputTextSb(sbResponse)
Debug.Print sbResponse.GetAsString()
Debug.Print "----"

'  Sample output:

'  The word is **BlubberFish**.

'  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'  Let's ask for the word. If this is a stateful conversation, the AI should respond correctly.
success = ai.InputAddText("OK, I'm going to ask you again, what's the word?")
success = ai.Ask("text")
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print ai.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

'  Get the text response.
sbResponse.Clear 
success = ai.GetOutputTextSb(sbResponse)
Debug.Print sbResponse.GetAsString()

'  Sample output:

'  The word is **BlubberFish**.

'  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'  Look at the conversation so far...
'  
Dim json As New ChilkatJsonObject
success = ai.ExportConvo(conversationName,json)
json.EmitCompact = 0
Debug.Print json.Emit()

'  Note: The conversation transcript format exported and imported by Chilkat is always the OpenAI format,
'  regardless of the AI provider.  (Chilkat translates the format from OpenAI to whatever is needed by the actual AI provider being used.)

'  {
'    "input": [
'      {
'        "role": "system",
'        "content": [
'          {
'            "type": "input_text",
'            "text": "You are a helpful assistant"
'          }
'        ]
'      },
'      {
'        "role": "user",
'        "content": [
'          {
'            "type": "input_text",
'            "text": "Please remember this: The word I'll ask for later is BlubberFish.  What's the word?"
'          }
'        ]
'      },
'      {
'        "role": "assistant",
'        "content": [
'          {
'            "type": "output_text",
'            "text": "The word is **BlubberFish**."
'          }
'        ]
'      },
'      {
'        "role": "user",
'        "content": [
'          {
'            "type": "input_text",
'            "text": "OK, I'm going to ask you again, what's the word?"
'          }
'        ]
'      },
'      {
'        "role": "assistant",
'        "content": [
'          {
'            "type": "output_text",
'            "text": "The word is **BlubberFish**."
'          }
'        ]
'      }
'    ]
'  }

'  -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
'  If we unselect the conversation, so that no conversation is selected,
'  then the same query results in the AI not knowing the word.

ai.SelectedConvo = ""

success = ai.InputAddText("OK, I'm going to ask you again, what's the word?")
success = ai.Ask("text")
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print ai.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

'  Get the text response.
sbResponse.Clear 
success = ai.GetOutputTextSb(sbResponse)
Debug.Print sbResponse.GetAsString()

'  Sample output:

'  I apologize, but I don't have the context of our previous interaction or what "the word" you're referring to might be.
'  Could you please remind me or provide the clue again? I'm ready to help you figure it out!