No one wants to talk to your chatbot. Personal virtual assistants, like Siri and Alexa, are becoming the new starting point for users, replacing the need for interacting with multiple chatbots and online assistants... read more  

Prompt engineering is a critical skill for building intelligent apps with generative AI, allowing users to interact with language models and generate coherent language. Craft clear instructions, use examples, pay attention to cueing, test different arrangements, and be mindful of token limits to cre.. read more  

Mozilla's hackathon aimed to build an internal chatbot prototype running on open source large language models (LLMs) and hosted on Mozilla's cloud infrastructure. They chose to avoid third-party AI services to maintain control and privacy. They encountered challenges while using Hugging Face's hoste.. read more  

A major change proposal for the Go programming language was published recently, which introduces a new "range int" function. This proposal aims to make future Go releases more efficient and provides examples of how the code would be updated... read more  

The flower bed in front of the author's house is overgrown. They created a mosaic generator to process 14,490 tiles made from 894 source images in a concurrent manner using the fan-out, fan-in pattern... read more  

The author presented a comparison between their Python program, pygit, and the corresponding Go program, gogit. The Go version was shorter, around 400 lines, and focused on minimalism, supporting only init, commit, and push functionalities. To handle errors more succinctly, they used panic-based err.. read more  

There are affordable options for managing Kubernetes, such as providers likeHetznerandInfomaniak, which offer good learning opportunities and a balance of features, security, and simplicity... read more  

How to use Python to analyze the X.com logo, which is a Unicode character (U+1D54F) from the Mathematical Alphanumeric Symbols block. The author compares the logo's shape to glyphs in various fonts and finds strong similarities with the Noto Sans Math font. However, no exact matches were found among.. read more  

Python's multiprocessing module provides a way to spawn multiple processes and execute functions in parallel, allowing for efficient handling of program execution and avoiding the use of threads. The module's Process class is specifically designed to manage and interact with these processes within P.. read more  

One of the ways software engineers add value is by performing time-series analysis, which involves extracting insights from temporal data and making predictions based on time-based patterns. Python is a preferred tool for time-series analysis due to its simplicity, versatility, extensive library sup.. read more