How to implement Q&A against your documentation with GPT3, embeddings and Datasette

Luis QuintanillaLuis Quintanilla

→ http://simonwillison.net/2023/Jan/13/semantic-search-answers/#atom-everything

Here's how to do this:

  • Run a text search (or a semantic search, described later) against your documentation to find content that looks like it could be relevant to the user's question.
  • Grab extracts of that content and glue them all together into a blob of text.
  • Construct a prompt consisting of that text followed by "Given the above content, answer the following question: " and the user's question
  • Send the whole thing through the GPT-3 API and see what comes back