Nice, I was playing with documentation q&a with gpt in https://github.com/rmuller-ml/gpt_table_of_contents_doc_qa and found that if the documents your are doing semantic search on is structured, you can prompt gpt with the table of contents so gpt does the chunk prefiltering for you. I guess this is similar to your tagging explanation. Nice work
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good point - I suppose we'll cross that bridge when we get there.
I was about to comment on the trademark issue but then I saw this top comment. I think you're making a mistake with your approach of 'crossing that bridge'. Trademark violation is no joke and it's so much easier to change the name early on rather than when you have some brand recognition and thousands of users. Learn from other people's mistake, don't make your own.
I see - we'll reconsider then! Appreciate the feedback
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#83Nice, I was playing with documentation q&a with gpt in https://github.com/rmuller-ml/gpt_table_of_contents_doc_qa and found that if the documents your are doing semantic search on is structured, you can prompt gpt with the table of contents so gpt does the chunk prefiltering for you. I guess this is similar to your tagging explanation. Nice work
That's clever! So it looks like rather than use a vector store, in your approach you use GPT and the table of contents to find the right section? How do you find it performs in terms of accuracy and cost?
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#84Nice! I’m building something similar, which you can try on out on different sources of documentation: huggingface, PyTorch lighting, PyTorch, and more to come! We built a slack bot version too
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#85congrats 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…
Great work, congrats. You might be already familiar with Qdrant, but feel free to reach out to me if you'd like to get help testing or discuss anything around it.
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#861) Could you integrate this with Telegram?
2) If you want to ask questions about an open-source project that you don't own, how should you do this?
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#87Do you plan to support Teams also?
We might if we hear a lot of people asking about it! Would you use it if it supports Teams?
That would be a question for the management of my company. I just want to say that many software companies are using Teams. It's not just my current workplace, we've used Teams at many of my former work places.
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#881) Could you integrate this with Telegram? 2) If you want to ask questions about an open-source project that you don't own, how should you do this?
Telegram group chats cannot be encrypted AFAIK. This would probably be a show stopper for a lot of companies.
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#89Could this one day be implemented as a chatbot available throughout the docs? Example: I could look up Mapbox Docs, then simply type in what I’m trying to achieve, and get a code snippet with JS Fiddle example generated.
Yep! It could be, though we had to be be very focused on the channel so we started with Slack and Discord. Personally I think there's less value in an interface over the docs vs a community. Engineers might prefer faster answers from docs, but companies are going to prefer having their users in a central place where they can talk to them.
Honestly having it in the docs would seem much more interesting. From a user perspective, I try and figure something out and then ask for help right there. Vs having to go somewhere else and then publicly ask the question.
And honestly from a company perspective, as long as you are logging the interactions to see how its being used, that is all I would care about. A place where the chat bot answers everything isn't going to build an actual community. Its just going to end up a discord channel that gets muted by the user until they have another question 6 months from now. There won't be an opportunity to talk to those users anyways.
Re: Launch HN: Sidekick (YC W23) – AI support bot for developers
#90Could this one day be implemented as a chatbot available throughout the docs? Example: I could look up Mapbox Docs, then simply type in what I’m trying to achieve, and get a code snippet with JS Fiddle example generated.
Yep! It could be, though we had to be be very focused on the channel so we started with Slack and Discord. Personally I think there's less value in an interface over the docs vs a community. Engineers might prefer faster answers from docs, but companies are going to prefer having their users in a central place where they can talk to them.
I hear you. But I’ve never joined a Slack or Discord as a way of getting support for a dev product.