Configuration to set default provider

[geniekanth]

Provide some configurations to set default provider, so we don't have to explicitly set from JupyterLab extension.

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@geniekanth
Thanks for your interest in Jupyter AI.
Can you elaborate a bit more on your motivation for requesting this. Do you feel this is something you require as an individual user or find it useful in an enterprise setting where a default value is provided, and possibly others blocked?

[geniekanth]

@3coins , It is for enterprise settings, where users don't have to see every time when they use the extension.

[sshillo]

I need this configuration as well, I really want to use this for my company, our data scientists use jupyterlab in the cloud. To have them use it, I need to be able to configure the model and api keys through some config, not in the ui.

[Keelan-Payne]

Also hoping for this on behalf of my organization and our JupyterHub deployment. We have OpenAI keys we would like to configure for use by default, without directly exposing the keys to our users.

[JasonWeill]

Currently, all of the keys are deployed in Jupyter's local data directory (e.g., on Mac, ~/Library/Jupyter/jupyter_ai) in a file called config.json. Deploying a config.json file would make the API keys visible, although it doesn't assuage concerns about users being able to see shared keys.

[JasonWeill]

Pull request #353 may be related.