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- Any assistantagentsMembersHow do I build a chatbot that answers from my own documents?The usual approach is retrieval: store your documents in a searchable form, find the relevant passages for each question, and give them to the AI with an instruction to answer only from them.
- Any assistantagentsMembersHow do I give an AI agent tools like search or file access?You give an agent tools by describing functions to the model and writing the code that runs them when the model asks.
- Any assistantagentsHow do I make an AI agent?To make an AI agent, give a model a goal and a few tools, then run a loop where the model picks an action, your code runs it, and the result goes back to the model until it finishes.
- Any assistantagentsMembersHow do I stop an AI agent from doing something dangerous?Limit what it is allowed to do, and require a person to approve risky steps.
- Any assistantagentsMembersHow do I stop an AI agent from looping forever?Stop loops with hard limits in your code, not just instructions in the prompt.
- Any assistantagentsMembersHow do I test whether my AI prompt or bot is actually good?Build a small test set of real questions with known good answers, run your prompt against it, and score the results before and after every change.
- Any assistantagentsMembersShould I use RAG or fine-tuning to teach an AI my company's knowledge?For facts and documents that change, use RAG, which fetches relevant text at question time.
- Any assistantagentsMembersWhat are embeddings and a vector database in simple terms?Embeddings turn text into lists of numbers that capture meaning, so similar ideas end up close together.
- Any assistantagentsWhat is an AI agent and how is it different from a chatbot?An AI agent is a system that pursues a goal over several steps, deciding which actions to take, such as searching, reading files or running code.
- Any assistantagentsMembersWhat is function calling (tool calling) in AI?Function calling lets an AI ask your program to run a specific function, such as "look up order status", instead of only producing text.
- Any assistantagentsWhat is MCP, the Model Context Protocol, for AI tools?MCP, short for Model Context Protocol, is an open standard for connecting AI assistants to tools and data sources through a common interface.
- Any assistantagentsWhat is RAG and why do people use it with AI?RAG, or retrieval-augmented generation, means searching your own documents for relevant passages and giving them to the model along with the question, so it answers from real material instead of memory.
- Any assistantagentsMembersWhat should I put in a system prompt for a customer support chatbot?A good support chatbot system prompt states the role, the sources it may use, the tone, what it must not do, and what to do when it does not know.