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      <title>Customer Support RAG Assistant</title>
      <dc:creator>kobtze</dc:creator>
      <pubDate>Mon, 11 Nov 2024 13:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <link>https://dev.to/kobtze/customer-support-rag-assistant-1kka</link>
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      <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is a submission for the &lt;a href="https://dev.to/challenges/pgai"&gt;Open Source AI Challenge with pgai and Ollama &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  What I Built
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I created a customer support RAG assistant.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ol&gt;
&lt;li&gt;User request for is submitted (e.g. 'having trouble with XYZ')&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Semantic search is performed to look for similar tickets in DB&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Prompt to LLM includes user query and similar tickets retrieved&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Server returns suggested response to user&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ol&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Demo
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://bit.ly/4flG7xI" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;https://bit.ly/4flG7xI&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fp0lcqb2aipqyybuasn9x.png" class="article-body-image-wrapper"&gt;&lt;img src="https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Farticles%2Fp0lcqb2aipqyybuasn9x.png" alt="MS Office issue" width="574" height="386"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Tools Used
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  pgvector
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Signed up for TimescaleDB service to create a PostgreSQL instance with vector capabilities using pgvector.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Timescale CSV import
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Used &lt;a href="https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/tobiasbueck/multilingual-customer-support-tickets" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; dataset from Kaggle with ~600 customer support tickets.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  pgai Vectorizer / Open AI API
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Created a vectorizer to create vector embeddings of users requests (email body column).&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  gpt-3.5-turbo
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Server calls gpt-3.5-turbo completions API to compose suggested response to user based on their query and similar tickets found.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Source Code
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://github.com/kobtze/cs-rag-server-web-app" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;Server App&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
&lt;a href="https://github.com/kobtze/cs-rag-client-web-app" rel="noopener noreferrer"&gt;Client Web App&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;h2&gt;
  
  
  Final Thoughts
&lt;/h2&gt;

&lt;h3&gt;
  
  
  Prize categories
&lt;/h3&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Vectorizer Vibe😃&lt;/p&gt;

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