FYI. I would suggest changing the name. First, I thought from the title that was something related to Sidekick browser. Also, if you search crunchbase for the organizations, there are at least two Sidekick AI already.
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#42Great work! In your medium post, in the Post-processing section (step 1) you wrote: "If so, we re-run the evaluation prompt and force content_contains_answer to be false." I assume you do this forcing by adding 'false' to the prompt (as if GPT completed it), just like to seed the JSON structure itself. Could you explain what you do with the justification in that case? Use it in the same way as if the result was 'false' in the first place?
Do you have some stats on how often this even happens? In my experience, I have rarely seen these logprob thresholds actually get activated, because for binary token choices the probability of one of them is almost always >95%, but maybe this is because my prompts were not set correctly.
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#43Interesting idea, however the sign up process is confusing:
- "Add to Slack" opens a Stripe page which says $49 is due today while the landing page claims there's a 30 day trial
- "Get Sidekick now" opens a contact us form
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#44The point about chatbots lessening the shyness barrier in a public forum is very interesting. I think just like (imo) much of the value of the data science craze of the last 10 years came not from the final analysis of the data but from inducing businesses to start measuring and storing operational metrics from every corner of the company in a structured way in the first place, much of the business value of ChatGPT w…
Exactly. I didn't mention it in the post but the master plan is to give companies analytics over their customer conversations and documentation. This was technically possibly years ago but no one did it because customer support was seen as a cost center and the goal was to minimize spend. Companies rarely invested in CS instrumentation, or even outsourced the function entirely, which I find super odd because no one t…
You're telling me that for all these years, my calls being recorded for quality assurance was all in vain? ;)
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#45congrats on launch! i'm exploring vector database alternatives - any painpoints/wishlist items you care to mention with Weaviate?
You probably already know about Pinecone. If you have questions or want help testing anything let me know here or greg@pinecone.io
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#46Interesting idea, however the sign up process is confusing: - "Add to Slack" opens a Stripe page which says $49 is due today while the landing page claims there's a 30 day trial - "Get Sidekick now" opens a contact us form
If that’s the price point per month I don’t know if it will sustain. I feel like there will be a lot of companies like this? I imagine there will be some downward pricing pressure
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#47How accurate is it in its responses?
Have you had any instances of it writing a load of bullshit to a user, and if so how did you address this issue from a technical perspective?
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#48Interesting. I'll be blunt here: What prevents Slack, Discord, etc... from "cutting out the middleman"?
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#49Ive seen a few similar projects in the last few weeks.
https://github.com/arc53/DocsGPT has been here on the frontpage just a month ago.
And some other similar ones, but it good to see projects that will take a OSS approach, they are a few.
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#50congrats on launch! i'm exploring vector database alternatives - any painpoints/wishlist items you care to mention with Weaviate?
We actually migrated from Pinecone to Weaviate and it's been great far and I definitely recommend it. Top 2 features are: 1) the way they handle class properties is super intuitive and allows you to configure which properties to index, and 2) the cross-referencing feature which gives you relational DB like features in a vector store. Major props to Bob and the team, they've also been super helpful answering our quest…
Thanks, Jason! Very soon, the public beta of the cloud version will be live with a brand new UI, and 100% self-service hosted Weaviates