Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) allows Large Language Models (LLMs) like GPT-4 to access external knowledge sources for better responses, making them effective for customer support chatbots.
RAG provides relevant information from knowledge bases as context during response generation, creating automated customer support systems.
Tutorial guides building a RAG-powered chatbot using Stream, OpenAI's GPT-4, and Supabase's pgvector.
Vector database set-up involves enabling pgvector, creating table for documents with content and embedding columns, and implementing a match_documents function for similarity searches.
Express server is set up to create and store vector embeddings from knowledge base using OpenAI embeddings API and Supabase.
Authentication for customers is managed with Stream, where a token is generated and sent to the frontend for user/channel authentication.
A route in Express handles customers' queries, generates embeddings, performs similarity search, leverages context from the knowledge base for AI responses using OpenAI chat completions.
React with Vite is used at the frontend to create the chat UI, connecting to the backend server for handling customer queries and responses.
Chat UI includes components for sending messages, interacting with the AI Support Bot powered by OpenAI, and displaying responses in the support channel.
Application can be extended for human support requests, multi-user collaboration, and exploring different technologies for building RAG systems.