Date format form chatgpt api

Short Course Q&A ChatGPT Prompt Engineering for Developers
1

Today’s date is: 2023-05-02
Here’s a JSON summary of the previous resident order:

{
  "preferences": [
    {
      "preference": "Full Kitchen",
      "count": 2,
      "start_date": "2021-10-20",
      "end_date": "2021-10-21"
    }
  ],
  "service_type": "Dine In"
}


this is service based conversation, where user was asked to give date to avail that service,

user : today and tomorrow

for the user's response while generating json, it is not correct, it should display todays date and tomorrows right. can anyone help me to resolve this.
2

Have you included today’s date in the system message?

Something like:

{
    'role':'system', 
    'content':"""You are friendly chatbot. Today's date is 2023/05/02 (yyyy/mm/dd)."""
}
3

No, I have not added date like you mentioned above in content.
If I mention like above it won’t be dynamic right, for each day I need to update the date.

let us consider the input form customer is like this,

customer : “delivery of this product can be between day after tomorrow and next four days.”

then bot should know that the starting date is 5/5/2023 to 9/5/2023. This is what I am actually expecting.

bot is now giving wrong year month and date.
like this (just an example)
“start_date”: “2021-10-20”,
“end_date”: “2021-10-24”

Thanks for your time, please help me to resolve.

4

Of course, you are in a Python context. You can obtain the date dynamically:

from datetime import datetime

date=datetime.today().strftime('%Y/%m/%d')

messages = []
messages.append({
    'role':'system', 
    'content':f"You are friendly chatbot. Today's date is {date} (yyyy/mm/dd)."
})

print(messages)
5

thanks for reminder, this works thank you.