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		spencerchubb on Jan 14, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Vanna.ai: Chat with your SQL database I'm pretty sure whoever coined the term just wanted to sound smart. Retrieval Augmented Generation is a fancy way to say "put data in the prompt"

hliyan on Jan 15, 2024 [–]

Or rather, run a cosine similarity search on a large data set that won't fit in the prompt, find only the bits that are relevant to the query, and put that in the prompt.

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