A brief update on this from me - I've now added the Python, R, C++, and
Java cookbooks as a source for the kapa.ai question bot, so code examples
from those should be on there now.

At a later point, I'll take a look at potentially adding GitHub PRs and
issues, but I'd like to test what we have so far before adding more in
there.


On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 at 04:56, Nic Crane <thisis...@gmail.com> wrote:

> We've current had 64 questions, though many of these are from folks
> testing it out.  I've personally found it useful for some of my dev work.
>
> It's hard to tell yet if it's useful for users but we'll have more data
> once it's live on the latest docs rather than the dev docs, so my plan is
> to keeping checking in on the questions and answers between the upcoming
> release and the next one so we can decide whether it's a useful tool for us
> to have.
>
> If anyone would like a login for kapa.ai so you can see the conversations
> and answers (and add in any feedback you'd like to add yourself for
> questions), then please email me and I'll add you as a user.
>
>
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2025 at 06:11, Nic Crane <thisis...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> > nit: any chance the popup can be made to respect the light/dark mode
>> toggle
>> in the docs? It seems to always use a light color scheme.
>>
>> From the looks of it, the colour can be configured via the
>> 'data-project-color' parameter[1] so I imagine this could be done via
>> updating the widget script with some custom JS on our side.
>>
>> [1] https://docs.kapa.ai/integrations/website-widget/configuration
>>
>> On Mon, 31 Mar 2025 at 17:15, Brian Hulette <bhule...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Very cool, I tried a few queries and it provided good answers.
>>>
>>> nit: any chance the popup can be made to respect the light/dark mode
>>> toggle
>>> in the docs? It seems to always use a light color scheme.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM Nic Crane <thisis...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> > Cookbooks aren't part of the sources but we can certainly add them
>>> later.
>>> >
>>> > The kapa folk recommend trying with an initial sunset of sources and
>>> adding
>>> > more in gradually, so I'll check back in on this next week and think
>>> about
>>> > what we might want to add next.
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, 28 Mar 2025, 21:45 Aldrin, <octalene....@pm.me.invalid> wrote:
>>> >
>>> > > Ooh, yeah it's looking fairly effective. I asked some questions and I
>>> > like
>>> > > that the answers address differences in language implementations
>>> (e.g.
>>> > > python bindings vs cpp) and that there are relatively good code
>>> > suggestions.
>>> > >
>>> > > I assume this means the tests and benchmarks are helping the RAG a
>>> lot,
>>> > so
>>> > > general well done to all contributors. Out of curiosity, are the
>>> > cookbooks
>>> > > part of the learning/retrieval sources?
>>> > >
>>> > > Sent from Proton Mail <https://proton.me/mail/home> for iOS
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 13:58, Neal Richardson <
>>> > > neal.p.richard...@gmail.com
>>> > > <On+Fri,+Mar+28,+2025+at+13:58,+Neal+Richardson+%3C%3Ca+href=>>
>>> wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > Awesome, thanks for doing this! I tried out a few queries and was
>>> > > impressed
>>> > > with what I got back.
>>> > >
>>> > > Neal
>>> > >
>>> > > On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 2:01 PM Nic Crane <thisis...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > > Hi folks,
>>> > > >
>>> > > > The kapa.ai bot is now live on the dev docs! We're using it to
>>> test
>>> > > > whether
>>> > > > we can enhance user experience of our documentation via retrieval
>>> > > augmented
>>> > > > generation which generates answers to user questions by combining
>>> > > > similarity searches of the docs and LLM output.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > You can use it by clicking the "Ask AI" button in the bottom right
>>> > > corner
>>> > > > of https://arrow.apache.org/docs/dev/index.html
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Currently we've just ingested the docs, but as we experiment more,
>>> we
>>> > > can
>>> > > > add other sources like Zulip and the mailing lists if we think
>>> these
>>> > > will
>>> > > > provide useful additional source material.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Please give it a go and use the "good answer" and "bad answer"
>>> buttons
>>> > > so
>>> > > > we can assess how useful this is likely to be for our end users;
>>> bonus
>>> > > > points for adding a better answer when you're not happy with the
>>> one
>>> > > given.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > I'll be checking in on it every so often and will report back here
>>> with
>>> > > the
>>> > > > results.
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Thanks,
>>> > > >
>>> > > > Nic
>>> > > >
>>> > >
>>> > >
>>> >
>>>
>>

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