Generate a list using chat models

[abhinavdayal]

I have a need to output a list of items from a text (for example list of ingredients from a recipe text) using the ChatGPT model.

How can I use guidance template to specify return the items as a list. Currently it gives me a single text snippet for all ingredients.

{{#assistant~}}
{{gen 'ingredients' temperature=0 max_tokens=500}}
{{~/assistant}}

[rickbraddy-pharma]

{{gen 'ingredients' n=5 temperature=0 max_tokens=500}}

From gen notebook:

n keyword argument
The n argument controls how many generations to perform in a batch. If n > 1 then only the first completion is used for future contex, and the rest are just stored in the variable.

out = guidance("""This is a sentence about {{gen 'text' n=5 max_tokens=5 temperature=1.0}}""")()
out["text"]
This is a sentence about the 'rightness' of
["the 'rightness' of",
'a different sort of person,',
'self destruction in general as the',
"'our collective intelligence tells us",
"what we call a 'human"]