This commit introduces a new feature for AI Personas called the "Question Consolidator LLM". The purpose of the Question Consolidator is to consolidate a user's latest question into a self-contained, context-rich question before querying the vector database for relevant fragments. This helps improve the quality and relevance of the retrieved fragments.
Previous to this change we used the last 10 interactions, this is not ideal cause the RAG would "lock on" to an answer.
EG:
- User: how many cars are there in europe
- Model: detailed answer about cars in europe including the term car and vehicle many times
- User: Nice, what about trains are there in the US
In the above example "trains" and "US" becomes very low signal given there are pages and pages talking about cars and europe. This mean retrieval is sub optimal.
Instead, we pass the history to the "question consolidator", it would simply consolidate the question to "How many trains are there in the United States", which would make it fare easier for the vector db to find relevant content.
The llm used for question consolidator can often be less powerful than the model you are talking to, we recommend using lighter weight and fast models cause the task is very simple. This is configurable from the persona ui.
This PR also removes support for {uploads} placeholder, this is too complicated to get right and we want freedom to shift RAG implementation.
Key changes:
1. Added a new `question_consolidator_llm` column to the `ai_personas` table to store the LLM model used for question consolidation.
2. Implemented the `QuestionConsolidator` module which handles the logic for consolidating the user's latest question. It extracts the relevant user and model messages from the conversation history, truncates them if needed to fit within the token limit, and generates a consolidated question prompt.
3. Updated the `Persona` class to use the Question Consolidator LLM (if configured) when crafting the RAG fragments prompt. It passes the conversation context to the consolidator to generate a self-contained question.
4. Added UI elements in the AI Persona editor to allow selecting the Question Consolidator LLM. Also made some UI tweaks to conditionally show/hide certain options based on persona configuration.
5. Wrote unit tests for the QuestionConsolidator module and updated existing persona tests to cover the new functionality.
This feature enables AI Personas to better understand the context and intent behind a user's question by consolidating the conversation history into a single, focused question. This can lead to more relevant and accurate responses from the AI assistant.
Updating the editing model's rag_uploads in the editor component broke multi-file uploading. Instead, we'll keep the uploads in the uploader and update the model when we finish.
This PR also fast-tracks the initial update so we can show feedback to the user quickly, and allows uploading MD files.
Bug reported on https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-ai-persona-upload-support/304049/11
* FIX: various RAG edge cases
- Nicer text to describe RAG, avoids the word RAG
- Do not attempt to save persona when removing uploads and it is not created
- Remove old code that avoided touching rag params on create
* FIX: Missing pause button for persona users
* Feature: allow specific users to debug ai request / response chains
This can help users easily tune RAG and figure out what is going
on with requests.
* discourse helper so it does not explode
* fix test
* simplify implementation
* FEATURE: allow tuning of RAG generation
- change chunking to be token based vs char based (which is more accurate)
- allow control over overlap / tokens per chunk and conversation snippets inserted
- UI to control new settings
* improve ui a bit
* fix various reindex issues
* reduce concurrency
* try ultra low queue ... concurrency 1 is too slow.
This PR lets you associate uploads to an AI persona, which we'll split and generate embeddings from. When building the system prompt to get a bot reply, we'll do a similarity search followed by a re-ranking (if available). This will let us find the most relevant fragments from the body of knowledge you associated with the persona, resulting in better, more informed responses.
For now, we'll only allow plain-text files, but this will change in the future.
Commits:
* FEATURE: RAG embeddings for the AI Bot
This first commit introduces a UI where admins can upload text files, which we'll store, split into fragments,
and generate embeddings of. In a next commit, we'll use those to give the bot additional information during
conversations.
* Basic asymmetric similarity search to provide guidance in system prompt
* Fix tests and lint
* Apply reranker to fragments
* Uploads filter, css adjustments and file validations
* Add placeholder for rag fragments
* Update annotations
This commit adds the ability to enable vision for AI personas, allowing them to understand images that are posted in the conversation.
For personas with vision enabled, any images the user has posted will be resized to be within the configured max_pixels limit, base64 encoded and included in the prompt sent to the AI provider.
The persona editor allows enabling/disabling vision and has a dropdown to select the max supported image size (low, medium, high). Vision is disabled by default.
This initial vision support has been tested and implemented with Anthropic's claude-3 models which accept images in a special format as part of the prompt.
Other integrations will need to be updated to support images.
Several specs were added to test the new functionality at the persona, prompt building and API layers.
- Gemini is omitted, pending API support for Gemini 1.5. Current Gemini bot is not performing well, adding images is unlikely to make it perform any better.
- Open AI is omitted, vision support on GPT-4 it limited in that the API has no tool support when images are enabled so we would need to full back to a different prompting technique, something that would add lots of complexity
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* FIX: don't show share conversation incorrectly
- ai_persona_name can be null vs undefined leading to button showing up where it should not
- do not allow sharing of conversations where user is sending PMs to self
* remove erroneous code
* avoid query
This allows users to share a static page of an AI conversation with
the rest of the world.
By default this feature is disabled, it is enabled by turning on
ai_bot_allow_public_sharing via site settings
Precautions are taken when sharing
1. We make a carbonite copy
2. We minimize work generating page
3. We limit to 100 interactions
4. Many security checks - including disallowing if there is a mix
of users in the PM.
* Bonus commit, large PRs like this PR did not work with github tool
large objects would destroy context
Co-authored-by: Martin Brennan <martin@discourse.org>
This PR adds AI semantic search to the search pop available on every page.
It depends on several new and optional settings, like per post embeddings and a reranker model, so this is an experimental endeavour.
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1. Fix input fields in AI persona editor and make GitHub tool authentication optional
2. AI persona editor improvements and tool GitHub access token check
This pull request makes a few improvements:
- Adds `lang="en"` to number input fields in the AI persona editor to prevent localization issues
- Adds `step="any"` to allow fractional values for temperature and top_p settings
- Makes GitHub tool authentication contingent on `ai_bot_github_access_token` site setting being present
see: https://meta.discourse.org/t/ai-bot-personas-don-t-accept-decimals-for-temperature-top-p/298243/7
- FIX: only update system attributes when updating system persona
- FIX: update participant count by hand so bot messages show in inbox
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Persona users are still bots, but we were not properly accounting
for it and share icon was not showing up.
This depends on a core change that adds .topic to transformed posts
This PR adds a new feature where you can generate captions for images in the composer using AI.
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Affects the following settings:
ai_toxicity_groups_bypass
ai_helper_allowed_groups
ai_helper_custom_prompts_allowed_groups
post_ai_helper_allowed_groups
This turns off client: true for these group-based settings,
because there is no guarantee that the current user gets all
their group memberships serialized to the client. Better to check
server-side first.
1. Personas are now optionally mentionable, meaning that you can mention them either from public topics or PMs
- Mentioning from PMs helps "switch" persona mid conversation, meaning if you want to look up sites setting you can invoke the site setting bot, or if you want to generate an image you can invoke dall e
- Mentioning outside of PMs allows you to inject a bot reply in a topic trivially
- We also add the support for max_context_posts this allow you to limit the amount of context you feed in, which can help control costs
2. Add support for a "random picker" tool that can be used to pick random numbers
3. Clean up routing ai_personas -> ai-personas
4. Add Max Context Posts so users can control how much history a persona can consume (this is important for mentionable personas)
Co-authored-by: Martin Brennan <martin@discourse.org>
* FEATURE: allow personas to supply top_p and temperature params
Code assistance generally are more focused at a lower temperature
This amends it so SQL Helper runs at 0.2 temperature vs the more
common default across LLMs of 1.0.
Reduced temperature leads to more focused, concise and predictable
answers for the SQL Helper
* fix tests
* This is not perfect, but far better than what we do today
Instead of fishing for
1. Draft sequence
2. Draft body
We skip (2), this means the composer "only" needs 1 http request to
open, we also want to eliminate (1) but it is a bit of a trickier
core change, may figure out how to pull it off (defer it to first draft save)
Value of bot drafts < value of opening bot conversations really fast
Account properly for function calls, don't stream through <details> blocks
- Rush cooked content back to client
- Wait longer (up to 60 seconds) before giving up on streaming
- Clean up message bus channels so we don't have leftover data
- Make ai streamer much more reusable and much easier to read
- If buffer grows quickly, rush update so you are not artificially waiting
- Refine prompt interface
- Fix lost system message when prompt gets long
This PR introduces 3 things:
1. Fake bot that can be used on local so you can test LLMs, to enable on dev use:
SiteSetting.ai_bot_enabled_chat_bots = "fake"
2. More elegant smooth streaming of progress on LLM completion
This leans on JavaScript to buffer and trickle llm results through. It also amends it so the progress dot is much
more consistently rendered
3. It fixes the Claude dialect
Claude needs newlines **exactly** at the right spot, amended so it is happy
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Previous to this change it was very hard to tell if completion was
stuck or not.
This introduces a "dot" that follows the completion and starts
flashing after 5 seconds.
It also corrects the syntax around tool support, which was wrong.
Gemini doesn't want us to include messages about previous tool invocations, so I had to shuffle around some code to send the response it generated from those invocations instead. For this, I created the "multi_turn" context, which bundles all the context involved in the interaction.
Chrome and Firefox work with standard clipboardCopy, but since
we are making an ajax call Safari fails cause there is too much
delay detected.
To avoid this issue we trade in promises which are acceptable and
work in iOS.
* FEATURE: allow easy sharing of bot conversations
* Lean on new core API i
* Added system spec for copy functionality
* Update assets/javascripts/initializers/ai-bot-replies.js
Co-authored-by: Alan Guo Xiang Tan <gxtan1990@gmail.com>
* discourse later insted of setTimeout
* Update spec/system/ai_bot/share_spec.rb
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* feedback from review
just check the whole payload
* remove uneeded code
* fix spec
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We were limiting to 20 results unconditionally cause we had to make
sure search always fit in an 8k context window.
Models such as GPT 3.5 Turbo (16k) and GPT 4 Turbo / Claude 2.1 (over 150k)
allow us to return a lot more results.
This means we have a much richer understanding cause context is far
larger.
This also allows a persona to tweak this number, in some cases admin
may want to be conservative and save on tokens by limiting results
This also tweaks the `limit` param which GPT-4 liked to set to tell
model only to use it when it needs to (and describes default behavior)
Personas now support providing options for commands.
This PR introduces a single option "base_query" for the SearchCommand. When supplied all searches the persona will perform will also include the pre-supplied filter.
This can allow personas to search a subset of the forum (such as documentation)
This system is extensible we can add options to any command trivially.
* FEATURE: User sentiment on profile summary page
This introduces a new user stat in a user profile summary page.
It will show either neutral/positive/negative according to the dominant
sentiment in the user last interactions.
The user-stat widget is only rendered for staff.
Co-authored-by: Keegan George <kgeorge13@gmail.com>
* FEATURE: Azure OpenAI support for DALL*E 3
Previous to this there was no way to add an inference endpoint for
DALL*E on Azure cause it requires custom URLs
Also:
- On save, when editing a persona it would revert priority and enabled
- More forgiving parsing in command framework for array function calls
- By default generate HD images - they tend to be a bit better
- Improve DALL*E prompt which was getting very annoying and always echoing what it is about to do
- Add a bit of a sleep between retries on image generation
- Fix error handling in image_command
* FIX: no selected persona should pick first prioritized one
Previously we were looking at `.personaId` but there is only an
id attribute so it failed
* FEATURE: new DALL-E-3 persona
This persona generates images using DALL-E-3 API and is enabled
by default
Keep in mind that we are still waiting on seeds/gen_id so we can
not retain style consistently between turns.
This will change as soon as a new Open AI API provides the missing
parameters
Co-authored-by: Martin Brennan <martin@discourse.org>
People tend to keep to 1 persona when working with the bot,
this adds local browser memory for the last persona you interacted
with so you do not need to select it over and over again.
This is per browser, not per user memory.
Also... clean up tests so they do not need to require stubs which
were breaking the build
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Introduces a UI to manage customizable personas (admin only feature)
Part of the change was some extensive internal refactoring:
- AIBot now has a persona set in the constructor, once set it never changes
- Command now takes in bot as a constructor param, so it has the correct persona and is not generating AIBot objects on the fly
- Added a .prettierignore file, due to the way ALE is configured in nvim it is a pre-req for prettier to work
- Adds a bunch of validations on the AIPersona model, system personas (artist/creative etc...) are all seeded. We now ensure
- name uniqueness, and only allow certain properties to be touched for system personas.
- (JS note) the client side design takes advantage of nested routes, the parent route for personas gets all the personas via this.store.findAll("ai-persona") then child routes simply reach into this model to find a particular persona.
- (JS note) data is sideloaded into the ai-persona model the meta property supplied from the controller, resultSetMeta
- This removes ai_bot_enabled_personas and ai_bot_enabled_chat_commands, both should be controlled from the UI on a per persona basis
- Fixes a long standing bug in token accounting ... we were doing to_json.length instead of to_json.to_s.length
- Amended it so {commands} are always inserted at the end unconditionally, no need to add it to the template of the system message as it just confuses things
- Adds a concept of required_commands to stock personas, these are commands that must be configured for this stock persona to show up.
- Refactored tests so we stop requiring inference_stubs, it was very confusing to need it, added to plugin.rb for now which at least is clearer
- Migrates the persona selector to gjs
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This PR adds new reports for displaying information about post sentiments grouped by date and emotions group by TL.
Depends on discourse/discourse#24274
* UX: prevent suggestion button from wrapping
This PR addresses the visual bug where the suggestion button wraps on any screen size.
* UX: edge case screen size
This addition fixes screen size issues at specific screen sizes without affecting larger screen sizes, no media query necessary.
Adds an AI Helper function when selecting text while viewing a topic.
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Also fixes it so users without bot in header can send it messages.
Previous to this change we would seed all bots with database seeds.
This lead to lots of confusion for people who do not enable ai bot.
Instead:
1. We do not seed any bots **until** user enables the ai_bot_enabled setting
2. If it is disabled we will
a. If no messages were created by bot - delete it
b. Otherwise we will deactivate account
This PR addresses the effort to use one icon representing discourse-ai.
Removed discourse-sparkles from discourse-ai, now included in core ``vendor/assets/svg-icons/discourse-additional.svg``
I thought this wasn't neccessary and we could safely rely on the appEvent during the initial search.
It only fires if #searchEnabled is true, meaning the search term is valid.
* FEATURE: HyDE-powered semantic search.
It relies on the new outlet added on discourse/discourse#23390 to display semantic search results in an unobtrusive way.
We'll use a HyDE-backed approach for semantic search, which consists on generating an hypothetical document from a given keywords, which gets transformed into a vector and used in a asymmetric similarity topic search.
This PR also reorganizes the internals to have less moving parts, maintaining one hierarchy of DAOish classes for vector-related operations like transformations and querying.
Completions and vectors created by HyDE will remain cached on Redis for now, but we could later use Postgres instead.
* Missing translation and rate limiting
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Previous to this change we relied on client side settings to
determine if an end user has access to the ai bot.
This meant that if a user was not aware they are a member of a
group (as it is with restricted visibility ones) they would not
see the bot button.
All checking has now moved to the server side, and tests were
added to cover.
This splits out a bunch of code that used to live inside bots
into a dedicated concept called a Persona.
This allows us to start playing with multiple personas for the bot
Ships with:
artist - for making images
sql helper - for helping with data explorer
general - for everything and anything
Also includes a few fixes that make the generic LLM function implementation more robust
Besides updating the connector using the new tracking preference service interface, this PR fixes a bug where due to `ai_embeddings_semantic_related_topics_enabled` not having `client: true` the initializer never ran, and we didn't show the related topics list when scrolling to the bottom of a long topic.
Azure requires a single HTTP endpoint per type of completion.
The settings: `ai_openai_gpt35_16k_url` and `ai_openai_gpt4_32k_url` can be
used now to configure the extra endpoints
This amends token limit which was off a bit due to function calls and fixes
a minor JS issue where we were not testing for a property
* FEATURE: optional warning attached to all AI bot conversations
This commit introduces `ai_bot_enable_chat_warning` which can be used
to warn people prior to starting a chat with the bot.
In particular this is useful if moderators are regularly reading chat
transcripts as it sets expectations early.
By default this is disabled.
Also:
- Stops making ajax call prior to opening composer
- Hides PM title when starting a bot PM
Co-authored-by: Rafael dos Santos Silva <xfalcox@gmail.com>
A missing parameter on the `parseInt` function was causing unexpected UI behavior for the AI helper since it turned an allowed group ID into NaN. We should always use base10 when parsing these IDs.
* FIX: Show related topics when scrolling long topics
* Update assets/javascripts/initializers/related-topics.js
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