Prep: Building AI Agents with RAG and Function Calling

workshop-prep.md

The workshop: https://lu.ma/6lrnyo1b
Please bring your own laptops.

Tech/Tools to be used: Nextjs, Supabase, OpenAI
Discussions: Discord

What we'll build

An RAG application which can ingest and search through a given documentation and answers questions. The app will be a chat UI that will use the Marvel Universe wiki as data source.

Things to install and setup

1. Install Node.js and Next.js

Node.Js (>= v18) : Installation
Next.js: Installation

If you're using Windows, a WSL setup too may be needed.

2. Get a free account on Supabase

Link: supabase.com

• We need a Postgresql database with the extension pgvector installed.
• Create account on supabase.com gives us a free Postgresql instance with pg_vector
• Or install the db locally with the extension

3. Get OpenAI keys

We need to make calls to the OpenAI APIs in some steps

• Make payment
• Create project
• Generate API keys

In case you're unable to pay for OpenAI, please sign-up for TuneStudio. The TuneAI team has agreed to share free credits with the participants

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Facing issues: ask us on Discord