When to attach a file to a chat or an assistant chat:

• There a small number of files

• The file(s) is/are relatively short

• You use the file only once or only in one chat

When to add a file in the assistant knowledge:

• There a small number of files

• The file(s) is/are relatively short

• You want to use the file regularly in the assistant

• The file does not change often (maybe every few days), so it is not too much effort to attach it again to the assistant

When to use knowledge folders:

• There is a large number of files

• The files are very long

• You only need specific sections of the files for a prompt, not the entire files

  • For example: You have built an FAQ assistant and attached documentation to it. For each prompt, only some topics are needed and only the relevant sections are used to answer the request.

To find out more about the functionality of the different features, please refer to the next section.