I’m having a hard time getting the semantic AI search to give me any results so I wanted to check with everyone and see if you all have any ideas on what could be wrong. If I take a simple example and search for “shopify”, you can see I get plenty of normal results, but no AI results. When I compar…

Hey @tyler.lamparter , On a first glance, one issue I’ve found with your site current config is that while you are using text-embedding-ada-002 you’ve filled the embeddings configs for prompts, which are not supported for that model. I removed the instructions you had set there and regenerated the e…

Thanks Sam! I wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing something obvious here since it seems to be working better on your own site.

The only thing that is jumping to mind is that possibly we are not done backfilling embeddings on your site, we will have a look

@Falco this seems to be working much better, thank you! I had added the prompts under the embedding configuration in an attempt to improve it, but of course it had no effect.

@Falco maybe I spoke too soon. Whenever I search now, AI always has exactly 40 results found regardless of what I search for. Many of the results are also not that relevant (suggesting the about this category topic for example). <a class="lightbox" href="https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/7/a/c/7ac7a330c52666cdc2a0b4a7eaa99e893eca6146.png" data-download-href="/uploads/short-url/hw9Yj0q41LsocqhNCGoUZjE5uPY.png?dl=1" title="The image shows a search query result for "what javascript version does celigo use" with three topics and a drop-down menu for advanced filters. (Captioned by AI)" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">[The image shows a search query result for "what javascript version d…

Let me try with a different embeddings model. Will report back in ~1h.

[image] Tyler Lamparter: [The image shows a search query result for "what javascript version does celigo use" with three topics and a drop-down menu for advanced filters. (Captioned by AI)] What would be the ideal topic result for this query ?

I would expect 0 search results and 0 AI results in that particular case. We support ES6/ECMAScript2015 JS (yes very old), but it’s not in any community post as of yet.

[image] Tyler Lamparter: I would expect 0 search results and 0 AI results in that particular case. Ohhhhh I see. This won’t work in this case. The way our current AI search works it: Takes user input Creates a new post about it taking into account the forum description Returns the most sem…

That would be great. That’s what I was attempting to do with adding the prompts into embeddings section. Since you can’t set a threshold now, is that why we’re always seeing about 40 results?

[image] Tyler Lamparter: Since you can’t set a threshold now, is that why we’re always seeing about 40 results? Yes, exactly. Today, the AI search works like a failover system when the standard search returns no results, acting like an overpowered synonyms dictionary. However, in your case, …

Getting a lot of no results for semantic search

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tyler.lamparter (Tyler Lamparter) March 12, 2025, 9:09pm 23

That’s what I was thinking. If the new feature works nicely for us then we may disable the HyDE toggle.

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Getting a lot of no results for semantic search

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