diff --git a/07-building-chat-applications/python/aoai-assigment-simple.ipynb b/07-building-chat-applications/python/aoai-assigment-simple.ipynb
index b74db776f..6f9a41056 100644
--- a/07-building-chat-applications/python/aoai-assigment-simple.ipynb
+++ b/07-building-chat-applications/python/aoai-assigment-simple.ipynb
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
     "assert RESOURCE_ENDPOINT, \"ERROR: Azure OpenAI Endpoint is missing\"\n",
     "assert \"openai.azure.com\" in RESOURCE_ENDPOINT.lower(), \"ERROR: Azure OpenAI Endpoint should be in the form: \\n\\n\\t<your unique endpoint identifier>.openai.azure.com\"\n",
     "openai.api_base = RESOURCE_ENDPOINT\n",
-    "deployment = \"gpt-35-turbo\" # replace with your deployment name"
+    "deployment = os.environ['AZURE_OPENAI_DEPLOYMENT']"
    ]
   },
   {
diff --git a/08-building-search-applications/python/aoai-assignment.ipynb b/08-building-search-applications/python/aoai-assignment.ipynb
index ea06e54e9..6d3658623 100644
--- a/08-building-search-applications/python/aoai-assignment.ipynb
+++ b/08-building-search-applications/python/aoai-assignment.ipynb
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
     "text = 'the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog'\n",
-    "model = 'text-embedding-ada-002'\n",
+    "model = os.getenv(\"AZURE_OPENAI_EMBEDDINGS_DEPLOYMENT\")\n",
     "\n",
     "client.embeddings.create(input = [text], model=model).data[0].embedding"
    ]