Add Curated Knowledge Base Search, Socratic

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basic web concepts • intermediate Python
skills learned
query rephrasing • knowledge retrieval
Jeremie Charlet
1 week · 2-4 hours per week · INTERMEDIATE
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Socratic liveProjects pair you with an AI tutor to help you learn by doing, in real time.

In this second liveProject, you’ll add Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) to a pre-existing chatbot so that it can provide up-to-date and reliable responses to questions fielded by the pet refuge. First, you’ll connect your chatbot to a document store and test it on real pet care questions to ensure answers are grounded in reliable sources. Then, you’ll improve retrieval quality by expanding the knowledge base, refining queries to better capture user intent, and adding smart filters for more relevant, precise results.

This project is a part of the series From Prompts to an Agentic System.
This project is designed for learning purposes and is not a complete, production-ready application or solution.

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This liveProject is for intermediate Python programmers interested in building practical AI assistants. You should be comfortable with basic Python scripting and eager to learn about prompt engineering and LLM integration.


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  • Basics of text processing
  • Basics of file management
  • Basics of data structures
  • Basics of prompt engineering

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