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Re:Rag Is a Hack by sprobertson on Friday October 06, 2023 @08:54PM (#37798090)
> all it really means is that you put some extra information in your prompt (from somewhere) that didn't come from the user

Yes, and if you are getting (retrieving) some extra information to add to (augment) your prompt for further responses (generation) then it's not very ambiguous.

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Re:Rag Is a Hack by ilaksh on Friday October 06, 2023 @10:13PM (#37798448)
Right, the name makes sense. People made it ambiguous because they often believe it means vector search.

I don't think that's correct, but if you look in this discussion, that's the reality of usage. So that makes it ambiguous in practice.

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Re:Rag Is a Hack by sprobertson on Saturday October 07, 2023 @01:39PM (#37803760)
I see what you mean - not sure about the usage of ambiguous but some people do have an overly narrow definition in mind
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