wit VS Zulip

wit.ai — NLP for developers.

Hello everyone, new to LLMs. I am working on my thesis project. The whole idea is to create a mixed reality voice assistant that can control some devices in a room and you can have with it a more intelligent conversation compared to other voice assistants(Alexa,Google, etc.). I thought initially to use wit.ai for the extraction of commands and if it's not a recognized command to send a request to a chatgpt API. Then I realized that wit.ai wasn't pretty accurate when I added multiple intents, for example distinguishing creating list from adding item to list or removing item from removing reminder etc, even though I added enough training data. Sometimes it identifies the entities correctly, but the intent is wrong even though there are no intents with these entities in the existing data. If user does not specify correctly a command I will have to handle a lot of scenarios like not specifying time or date or both and asking user to give them again and managing to extract the values correctly after. I thought that chatgpt could actually do both if I give some instructions with the formats of prompts and responses I want. I tried it in the web version and seemed to do what I want. Then I realized how expensive it is to use their API just to have context on a conversation. So my next thought was to use a local llm. So could someone recommend me a small model that can be used for such case or what adjustments should I do in order to work? In my university I can use a machine with 32GΒ Ram and Nvidia Α4000 GPU. Thank you :)

I can't find anything wrong with the code you posted. It is possible that wit.ai is expecting some default header that Unity is not sending (and that you are not setting)

Even though this was made for VR hopefully the scripts for wit.ai and GPT will be helpful to anyone who wants to explore this topic and doesn't know where to start.

Hey HN,

We're Alex, Martin and Laurent. We previously founded [Wit.ai](http://wit.ai/) (W14), which we sold to Facebook in 2015. Since 2019, we've been working on Nabla (https://www.nabla.com), an intelligent assistant for health practitioners.

When GPT-3 was released in 2020, we investigated it's usage in a medical context[0], to mixed results.

Since then we’ve kept exploring opportunities at the intersection of healthcare and AI, and noticed that doctors spend am awful lot of time on medical documentation (writing clinical notes, updating their EHR, etc.).

Today, we're releasing Nabla Copilot, a Chrome extension generating clinical notes from video consultations, to address this problem.

You can try it out, without installation nor sign up, on our demo page: [https://www.nabla.com/copilot-demo/](https://www.nabla.com/copilot-demo/)

Here’s how it works under the hood:

- When a doctor starts a video consultation, our Chrome extension auto-starts itself and listens to the active tab as well as the doctor’s microphone.

Thank you, that's helpful except that currently we're not running our own server. I'm currently using wit.ai for NLP which is a web API service provided by Meta. I'm trying to budget for what it would cost to roll out our own on a private cloud.

I have an NLP agent that uses wit.ai to "understand" input prompts. Now, wit.ai is just an API server that calculates the most probable intent of the prompt (out of the intents trained with) and also extracts the entities present in the prompt.

Wit AI : Natural Language for Developers

wit.ai — NLP for developers.

Zulip — Real-time chat with a unique email-like threading model. The free plan includes 10,000 messages of search history and File storage up to 5 GB. also, it provides a self-hostable open-source version.

(1) Zulip Chat - https://zulip.com/ - seems to be reasonably popular, but more people should know about it

I’ve been using it for over 5 years now [1], and it’s as good as ever. It’s way faster than any other chat app I’ve used. It has a good UI and conversation model. It has a simple and functional API that lets me curl threads and write blog posts based on them.

(only problem is that I Ctrl-+ in my browser to make the font bigger – I think it’s too dense for most people)

(2) re2c regex to state machine compiler - https://re2c.org

A gem from the 90’s, which people have done a great job maintaining and improving (getting Go and Rust target support in the last few years). I started using it in 2016, and used for a new program a few months ago. I came to the conclusion that it should have been built into C, because C has shitty string processing – and Ken Thompson both invented C AND brought regular languages to computing !!

In comparison, treesitter lexers are very low level, fiddly, and error prone. I recently saw dozens of ad hoc fixes to the tree-sitter-bash lexer, which is unsurprising if you look at the structure of the code (manually crawling through backslashes and braces in C).

https://github.com/tree-sitter/tree-sitter-bash/blob/master/...

These fixes are definitely appreciated, but I think it indicates a problem with the model itself.

(based on https://lobste.rs/s/endspx/software_you_are_thankful_for#c_y...)

[1] https://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/04/26.html

A few more truly in the vibe of open source projects not advertising their hosting providers: https://plane.so/ , https://element.io/ , https://www.loomio.com/ , https://zulip.com/ , and it keeps going... Very few open source projects, in the FOSS sense, are advertising their hosting provider.

I was so excited to see this happen!

I'm not a customer of yours, but your blog posts inspired me a lot. Your journey through quitting caffeine is a great and heartening read.

I've got two things to say;

1) Will you consider source-availabling the web portal (app.keygen.sh) too? Some enterprises could use it for easy management/support for custoner's licenses. Although now that I think about it, it could also discourage custom, more suitable implementations for each use-case... I'm torn on this one. I would like to see it available on GitHub too just out of curiosity too. It's very beautiful.

2) For a team + customers' chat, I cannot recommend Zulip enough. It's a joy to use and has the most innovative chat system I've ever seen. https://zulip.com

I hope your business keeps prospering!

Zulip | Senior Flutter Engineer | REMOTE or San Francisco | Full-time | https://zulip.com/

At Zulip, we’re out to build the world’s best collaboration platform, and we’re committed to keeping it 100% open source. Zulip is the only modern team chat app that is designed for both live and asynchronous conversations. Our product serves as the communication hub for businesses, open-source projects, educators and communities around the world.

We're building the next generation of Zulip's mobile apps in Flutter. We're looking for a senior engineer with Flutter experience to join our small core team and help define the future of team chat. Our Flutter prototype is just a few months old, so this is a greenfield opportunity to help shape the app's architecture from early on.

For full details, check out https://zulip.com/jobs/. Apply at [email protected].

Anyways, I'm an internet stranger, not a social media expert. So let me know what you all think. And if we make a discord or zulip or something to make this a reality, let me know and I'd love to help any way I can.