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Building Effective "Agents"

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598 points jascha_eng | 2 comments | 20 Dec 24 12:29 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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simonw ◴[20 Dec 24 22:25 UTC] No.42475700[source]▶
This is by far the most practical piece of writing I've seen on the subject of "agents" - it includes actionable definitions, then splits most of the value out into "workflows" and describes those in depth with example applications.

There's also a cookbook with useful code examples: https://github.com/anthropics/anthropic-cookbook/tree/main/p...

Blogged about this here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/20/building-effective-age...

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dmezzetti ◴[21 Dec 24 10:29 UTC] No.42478786[source]▶
If you're looking for a lightweight open-source framework designed to handle the patterns mentioned in this article: https://github.com/neuml/txtai

Disclaimer: I'm the author of the framework.

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1. threecheese ◴[21 Dec 24 18:04 UTC] No.42481123[source]▶
Hi David; I’ve seen txtai floating around, and just took a look. Would you say that it fits in a similar niche to something like llamaindex, but starting from a data/embeddings abstraction rather than a retrieval one (building on layers from there - like workflows, agents etc)?
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2. dmezzetti ◴[21 Dec 24 23:01 UTC] No.42483033[source]▶
Hello - This is a great and accurate description. The idea is that out of the box there is a pipeline but each component is also customizable.