Different approach, which also works with Llama 3.0 8B: let the LLM write the tool invocation of choice in Python syntax, parse the LLM response with the Python AST package.
(PoC'y hackathon demo) code here: https://github.com/ndurner/aileen2.
Kind of. Those that are explicitly trained to do that with consistent formats will do it better. They'll also save you the extra tokens needed to explain the format/method of interacting with functions. But yeah, you can simulate this with any recent model and enough explanation.
