So i just finished setting up discourse-ai, i wonder what are the RAG capacities of the AI ? I see it can retrieve content from posts but i have to ask it multiple times before it really understand that the information should be found inside a topic. Other features are working well !

This is all 100% supported today with a myriad of implementation options. The search tool can be scoped to a group of categories or tags (when you create a new persona and add the search tool) Custom tools provide extra flexibility here, you can make http requests to the same forum and consume any…

Thanks, I saw that section, that’s great , but i still have a few questions. Some context : we use discourse as a knowledge base and a forum to answer technical questions, we have all of our documentation on it. We will use the upload section of the persona to feed the data that we do not put dire…

Disclaimer: I’m a de facto end user and I don’t even understand how AIs really work. And I use OpenAI. There are some reasons why AI isn’t giving the wanted answer. Prompting dictates where and how it can search. One bad wording and it will do whatever it wants AI isn’t like Google with steroids …

[image] Jakke Flemming: No. That’s why ask.discourse.com fails quite often, if not asked a very limited and targeted question. This is a very important insight: you are never really done with these types of systems. We end up repeating the process of User asks AI and gets a bad answer We r…

That’s very true. And there is really huge possibility that my prompting is really bad. But… end users are using those bots and they aren’t good at writing high-quality questions, leading AI in the right direction to get what is needed. And then the knowledge that I gained today, although false, wi…

RAG capacities of discourse-ai

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sam (Sam Saffron) September 18, 2024, 5:39am 2

A persona has an upload section, your can upload multiple text files to your persona.

see: AI bot - Agents

You will need to configure embedding though for this to work.

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