Limiting Irrelevant Responses in Q&A System
TLDR Gio asked how to limit irrelevant answers, and Kishore Nallan suggested using a threshold on vector_distance value to determine similarity.
Feb 28, 2023 (9 months ago)
Gio
12:21 PMMy collection consists of 3 paragraphs off of Wikipedia about the war in Ukraine.
Obviously it won’t have an answer about how old I am. I’d love to return something like “it is an irrelevant question” or “I couldn’t find an answer”…
Kishore Nallan
12:24 PMMar 03, 2023 (9 months ago)
Gio
09:22 PMMar 04, 2023 (9 months ago)
Kishore Nallan
02:44 AM
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