langchain VS griptape

Langchain and the implementation of Custom Tools also is a great (and very efficient) way to setup a dedicated Q&A (for example for chat purpose) agent.

We're using it via langchain talking to Amazon Bedrock which is hosting Claude 1.x. It's comparable to GPT3.x, not bad. The integration doesn't seem to be fully there though, I think langchain is expecting "Human:" and "AI:", but Claude uses "Assistant:".

https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain/issues/2638

Depending on how much work you want to put into it, you can get started at HuggingFace with their models and datasets, but you'd need compute power, multiple MLOps, etc. I was introduced to the concept in this video, since Google has their Vertex AI tools on Google Cloud, and there's always LangChain but I'm not sure about anything recent.

a documentation chatbot proof of concept using GPT3.5 and LangChain

I encourage everyone to pay attention to the Langchain open-source project and leverage it to achieve tasks that ChatGPT cannot handle.

Yeah I never know where memory goes exactly in langchain, it's not exactly clear all the time. But sure, the main insight I remember is this, take a look at their MULTI_PROMPT_ROUTER_TEMPLATE: https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain/blob/560c4dfc98287da1...

It's a lot of instructions for an LLM, they seem to forget an LLM is an auto-completion machine, and which data it is trained on. Using <<>> for sections is not a normal thing, it's not markdown, which probably the thing read way more often on the internet, instead of open json comments, why not type signatures, instead of so many rules, why not give it examples? It is an autocomplete machine!

They are relying too much on the LLM being smart because they probably only test stuff in GPT-4 and 3.5, but with GPT4All models this prompt was not working at all, so I had to rewrite it, for simple routing, we don't even need json, carying the `next_inputs` here is weird if you don't need it.

So this is my version of it: https://gist.github.com/rogeriochaves/b67676977eebb1936b9b5c...

It's so basic it's dumb, yet it is more powerful, as it does not rely on GPT-4 level intelligence, it's just what I needed

Have you looked at griptape? https://github.com/griptape-ai/griptape

From the docs we can see the format of how Griptape Prompt Drivers work, and if we look at the project source code we can see code for Falcon, so there is hope yet!

So what are the alternatives to LangChain that the HN crowd uses?

I see two contenders:

https://github.com/minimaxir/simpleaichat/tree/main/simpleai...

https://github.com/griptape-ai/griptape

There is also the llm command line utility that has a very thin underlying library, but which might grow eventually:

Griptape is an enterprise alternative to LangChain built by former AWS engineers.

Griptape is an enterprise grade alternative to LangChain.

Check out Griptape. Keeps the data off prompt by default. To be clear, for things like summary, you’d use a second local model. But it lets you use vendors like openai for the brains / workflow

Check out Griptape. All former AWS engineers. Used by a few auto manufacturers and industrials already. Keeps data off prompt so it’s able to work directly with larger datasets. Abstractions are clean and little to no prompt engineering required.