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Announcing GitHub Copilot Labs #8308

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irealva asked this question in Copilot Feedback
Announcing GitHub Copilot Labs #8308
@irealva irealva
Dec 1, 2021 * 2 answers * 4 replies
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irealva
Dec 1, 2021

Greetings!

You may have noticed some cool new functionality in recent nightlies
of GitHub Copilot for Visual Studio Code! We've added the Labs
sidebar, a home for experiments we're building with the same
technologies that power GitHub Copilot.

The first application is Explain. Select some code, and ask GitHub
Copilot to explain that code to you in plain language:

GIF depicting the Copilot Labs Explain Flow

Create custom prompts

We provide a few preset prompts to get you started: three that
explain what a particular block of code does, and another that
generates example code for calling a function.

You can customize the prompt and stop sequence of a query in order to
come up with new applications that use Codex to interpret code.
Creating these can feel like more of an art than a science! Small
changes in the formulation of the prompt and stop sequence can
produce very different results. The three different "explain"
examples showcase strategies that tend to produce useful responses
from the model, but this is uncharted territory! We're excited to see
what you use this for.

These articles on prompt design and stop sequences are a great place
to start if you want to craft your own presets.

Please share feedback on GitHub Copilot Labs! Have you found a prompt
and stop sequence combination that works well, or did you generate
something particularly helpful? Let us know so we improve the
sidebar, and implement more useful presets and features over time.

-- GitHub Next

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minimaxir
Dec 1, 2021

I mean, it's not wrong.

Screen Shot 2021-12-01 at 8 39 20 AM

Ok, ok, that's cheating. But for fun I put some of my galaxy-brain AI
generated code examples pre-Cortex to see what happens.

Screen Shot 2021-12-01 at 8 49 52 AM

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tbh, better than expected.

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@idan

idan Dec 1, 2021

Wow, never thought to use this to explain regexes in plain english,
mindblown.gif

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@jonathankoren

jonathankoren Dec 1, 2021

The explanation is wrong though. It's four alphanums, a dollar sign,
and then three more alphanums.

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TimDaub
Dec 1, 2021

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@ganeshkrishnan1

ganeshkrishnan1 Dec 1, 2021

This is not the place to discuss it.

@TimDaub

TimDaub Dec 1, 2021

makes sense

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