Not answering correctly according to prompt and writes same answer 3-4 times

[yazanrisheh]

This is my current code and it does run however it answers completely differently sometimes and it also writes the answer 3 or 4 times. Please fix it for me and if possible, fix my templates to make my output consistent

from dotenv import load_dotenv import csv import PyPDF2 from PyPDF2 import PdfReader from langchain.document_loaders import DirectoryLoader, PyPDFLoader, PyPDFDirectoryLoader from langchain.text_splitter import RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter from langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings from langchain.callbacks import get_openai_callback from langchain.chat_models import ChatOpenAI from langchain.chains import ConversationalRetrievalChain from langchain.memory import ConversationBufferMemory from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate import time from langchain.vectorstores import Qdrant from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma from langchain.vectorstores import deeplake from langchain.chains.qa_with_sources import load_qa_with_sources_chain from langchain.callbacks import StreamingStdOutCallbackHandler import pandas as pd from docx import Document from nltk.tokenize import sent_tokenize, word_tokenize from collections import Counter from nltk.corpus import stopwords import os

def print_letter_by_letter(text): for char in text: print(char, end='', flush=True) time.sleep(0.02)

def main(): load_dotenv() my_activeloop_org_id = "yazanrisheh" my_activeloop_dataset_name = "langchain_course_customer_support" dataset_path = f"hub://{my_activeloop_org_id}/{my_activeloop_dataset_name}"

directory_path = input("Copy your directory path here or upload a file: ")

directory_path = "C:\\Users\\Asus\\Documents\\Vendolista"

# pdf_loader = DirectoryLoader(directory_path,
#                               glob="**/*.pdf",
#                               show_progress=True,
#                               use_multithreading=True,
#                               silent_errors=True,
#                               loader_cls = PyPDFLoader)

pdf_loader = PyPDFDirectoryLoader(directory_path)

documents = pdf_loader.load()
print(str(len(documents))+ " documents loaded")

llm = ChatOpenAI(temperature = 0, model_name='gpt-3.5-turbo', callbacks=[StreamingStdOutCallbackHandler()], streaming = True)

# Split into chunks
text_splitter = RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter(
    chunk_size=800,
    chunk_overlap=100,
)
chunks = text_splitter.split_documents(documents)

embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()

persist_directory = "C:\\Users\\Asus\\OneDrive\\Documents\\Vendolista"
knowledge_base = Chroma.from_documents(chunks, embeddings, persist_directory = persist_directory)
# save to disk
knowledge_base.persist() 
#To delete the DB we created at first so that we can be sure that we will load from disk as fresh db
knowledge_base = None
new_knowledge_base = Chroma(persist_directory = persist_directory, embedding_function = embeddings)

# weird_knowledge_base = deeplake(chunks, dataset_path=dataset_path, embedding=embeddings)
# knowledge_base = Qdrant(documents, embeddings)

p_template = """Given the following conversation and a follow up question, rephrase the follow up question to be a standalone question, in its original language.
If the Standalone question is empty or cannot be generated, use the follow up question as Standalone question.
Chat History:
{chat_history}
Follow Up Input: {question}
Standalone question:"""

#CONDENSE_QUESTION_PROMPT = PromptTemplate.from_template(_template)
CONDENSE_QUESTION_PROMPT = PromptTemplate(input_variables=["chat_history","question"],
template=p_template)
memory = ConversationBufferMemory(memory_key="chat_history",input_key="question",output_key='answer',return_messages=True)

chatTemplate = """
Important: You are an intelligent chatbot designed to help agents by answering questions only on Enterprise services & activities.
Answer the question only if there is information in the chat history(delimited by ) and context(delimited by ) below.

If context is not empty and answer cannot be determined from context, say "I cannot detemine the answer from context".
If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know, don't try to make up an answer.
Do not print your answer starting with "Answer:"
{context} ----------- {chat_history} ----------- Question: {question} Answer: Answer the question only if there is information based on the chat history(delimited by ) and context(delimited by ) below. 1. If context is not empty and answer cannot be determined from context, say "I cannot detemine the answer from context". 2. If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know, don't try to make up an answer. 3. Do not print your answer starting with "Answer:"
"""

promptHist = PromptTemplate(
input_variables=["context", "question", "chat_history"],
template=chatTemplate
)

qa = ConversationalRetrievalChain.from_llm(
llm = llm,
retriever = new_knowledge_base.as_retriever(),
condense_question_prompt=CONDENSE_QUESTION_PROMPT,
verbose=True,
memory=memory,
condense_question_llm=llm,
return_generated_question=False,
combine_docs_chain_kwargs={"prompt": promptHist},
return_source_documents=False,
)

while True:
    question = input("Ask me anything about the files (type 'exit' to quit): ")

    if question.lower() in ["exit"] and len(question) == 4:
        end_chat = "Thank you for visiting us! Have a nice day"
        print_letter_by_letter(end_chat)
        break

    if question:

        # chat_history = []
        with get_openai_callback() as cb:
            response = qa({"question": question}, return_only_outputs = False)

        # chat_history.append(('user', question))
        # chat_history.append(('AI', response))
        print("AI:", response)
        print(cb)

if name == 'main': main()

[dosubot[bot]]

🤖

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out and sharing your code. I understand that you're experiencing inconsistent responses and repeated answers from your LangChain application. Here are some suggestions to address these issues:

1. Inconsistent Responses: This could be due to the randomness inherent in the language model you're using (gpt-3.5-turbo). You can control this randomness by adjusting the temperature parameter when initializing your ChatOpenAI instance. A lower temperature value (closer to 0) will make the output more deterministic and consistent.

2. Repeated Answers: To prevent the model from generating the same response multiple times, you can implement a memory system that keeps track of previous responses. Here's a simple way to do this:

class ResponseMemory:
    def __init__(self):
        self.memory = []

    def add(self, response):
        self.memory.append(response)

    def check(self, response):
        return response in self.memory

response_memory = ResponseMemory()

def generate_response(question):
    with get_openai_callback() as cb:
        response = qa({"question": question}, return_only_outputs = False)
    if response_memory.check(response):
        # Modify the response or generate a new one
        response = modify_response(response)
    response_memory.add(response)
    return response

In this code, ResponseMemory is a simple class that maintains a list of previous responses. The generate_response function generates a response, checks if it's in the memory, and if it is, modifies it or generates a new one. Finally, it adds the response to the memory and returns it.

Please note that the modify_response function is not defined, as its implementation would depend on the specifics of your application.

I hope this helps! If you have any other questions or need further clarification, feel free to ask.

Best, Dosu

Sources

• libs/langchain/langchain/chains/qa_with_sources/stuff_prompt.py
• libs/langchain/langchain/chains/qa_with_sources/map_reduce_prompt.py
• libs/langchain/langchain/chains/conversational_retrieval/base.py
• libs/langchain/tests/unit_tests/chains/test_conversation_retrieval.py

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[yazanrisheh]

@dosu-bot Can you combine the solution you provided with my code that I am sharing? My code is below:

from dotenv import load_dotenv import csv import PyPDF2 from PyPDF2 import PdfReader from langchain.document_loaders import DirectoryLoader, PyPDFLoader, PyPDFDirectoryLoader from langchain.text_splitter import RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter from langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings from langchain.callbacks import get_openai_callback from langchain.chat_models import ChatOpenAI from langchain.chains import ConversationalRetrievalChain from langchain.memory import ConversationBufferMemory from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate import time from langchain.vectorstores import Qdrant from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma from langchain.vectorstores import deeplake from langchain.chains.qa_with_sources import load_qa_with_sources_chain from langchain.callbacks import StreamingStdOutCallbackHandler import pandas as pd from docx import Document from nltk.tokenize import sent_tokenize, word_tokenize from collections import Counter from nltk.corpus import stopwords import os

def print_letter_by_letter(text): for char in text: print(char, end='', flush=True) time.sleep(0.02)

def main(): load_dotenv() my_activeloop_org_id = "yazanrisheh" my_activeloop_dataset_name = "langchain_course_customer_support" dataset_path = f"hub://{my_activeloop_org_id}/{my_activeloop_dataset_name}"

directory_path = input("Copy your directory path here or upload a file: ")

directory_path = "C:\\Users\\Asus\\Documents\\Vendolista"

# pdf_loader = DirectoryLoader(directory_path,
#                               glob="**/*.pdf",
#                               show_progress=True,
#                               use_multithreading=True,
#                               silent_errors=True,
#                               loader_cls = PyPDFLoader)

pdf_loader = PyPDFDirectoryLoader(directory_path)

documents = pdf_loader.load()
print(str(len(documents))+ " documents loaded")

llm = ChatOpenAI(temperature = 0, model_name='gpt-3.5-turbo', callbacks=[StreamingStdOutCallbackHandler()], streaming = True)

# Split into chunks
text_splitter = RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter(
    chunk_size=800,
    chunk_overlap=100,
)
chunks = text_splitter.split_documents(documents)

embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()

persist_directory = "C:\\Users\\Asus\\OneDrive\\Documents\\Vendolista"
knowledge_base = Chroma.from_documents(chunks, embeddings, persist_directory = persist_directory)
# save to disk
knowledge_base.persist() 
#To delete the DB we created at first so that we can be sure that we will load from disk as fresh db
knowledge_base = None
new_knowledge_base = Chroma(persist_directory = persist_directory, embedding_function = embeddings)

# weird_knowledge_base = deeplake(chunks, dataset_path=dataset_path, embedding=embeddings)
# knowledge_base = Qdrant(documents, embeddings)

p_template = """Given the following conversation and a follow up question, rephrase the follow up question to be a standalone question, in its original language.
If the Standalone question is empty or cannot be generated, use the follow up question as Standalone question.
Chat History:
{chat_history}
Follow Up Input: {question}
Standalone question:"""

#CONDENSE_QUESTION_PROMPT = PromptTemplate.from_template(_template)
CONDENSE_QUESTION_PROMPT = PromptTemplate(input_variables=["chat_history","question"],
template=p_template)
memory = ConversationBufferMemory(memory_key="chat_history",input_key="question",output_key='answer',return_messages=True)

chatTemplate = """
Important: You are an intelligent chatbot designed to help agents by answering questions only on Enterprise services & activities.
Answer the question only if there is information in the chat history(delimited by ) and context(delimited by ) below.

If context is not empty and answer cannot be determined from context, say "I cannot detemine the answer from context".
If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know, don't try to make up an answer.
Do not print your answer starting with "Answer:"
{context} ----------- {chat_history} ----------- Question: {question} Answer: Answer the question only if there is information based on the chat history(delimited by ) and context(delimited by ) below. 1. If context is not empty and answer cannot be determined from context, say "I cannot detemine the answer from context". 2. If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know, don't try to make up an answer. 3. Do not print your answer starting with "Answer:"
"""

promptHist = PromptTemplate(
input_variables=["context", "question", "chat_history"],
template=chatTemplate
)

qa = ConversationalRetrievalChain.from_llm(
llm = llm,
retriever = new_knowledge_base.as_retriever(),
condense_question_prompt=CONDENSE_QUESTION_PROMPT,
verbose=True,
memory=memory,
condense_question_llm=llm,
return_generated_question=False,
combine_docs_chain_kwargs={"prompt": promptHist},
return_source_documents=False,
)

while True:
    question = input("Ask me anything about the files (type 'exit' to quit): ")

    if question.lower() in ["exit"] and len(question) == 4:
        end_chat = "Thank you for visiting us! Have a nice day"
        print_letter_by_letter(end_chat)
        break

    if question:

        # chat_history = []
        with get_openai_callback() as cb:
            response = qa({"question": question}, return_only_outputs = False)

        # chat_history.append(('user', question))
        # chat_history.append(('AI', response))
        print("AI:", response)
        print(cb)

if name == 'main': main()

[dosubot[bot]]

🤖

Based on the code you've provided and the context of your issue, it seems like you've already imported the ConversationBufferMemory class from the langchain.memory module. This class can be used to store the conversation history and prevent repeated responses.

Here's how you can integrate it into your existing code:

1. Initialize the ConversationBufferMemory:

memory = ConversationBufferMemory(memory_key="chat_history",input_key="question",output_key='answer',return_messages=True)

2. Use the memory object in your ChatOpenAI initialization:

llm = ChatOpenAI(temperature = 0, model_name='gpt-3.5-turbo', callbacks=[StreamingStdOutCallbackHandler()], streaming = True, memory=memory)

3. After each conversation, update the memory:

memory.update_memory(chat_history=chat_history, question=question, answer=answer)

Please replace chat_history, question, and answer with your actual conversation history, question, and answer.

Here's how your updated code might look:

# ... existing code ...

def main():
    # ... existing code ...

    memory = ConversationBufferMemory(memory_key="chat_history",input_key="question",output_key='answer',return_messages=True)
    llm = ChatOpenAI(temperature = 0, model_name='gpt-3.5-turbo', callbacks=[StreamingStdOutCallbackHandler()], streaming = True, memory=memory)

    # ... existing code ...

    # After each conversation, update the memory
    memory.update_memory(chat_history=chat_history, question=question, answer=answer)

    # ... existing code ...

Please note that the update_memory method should be called after each conversation to update the memory with the latest conversation history, question, and answer. This will help the system to remember the previous responses and prevent repeated responses.

I hope this helps! If you have any further questions, feel free to ask.

Sources

• Chatbot memory integration
• libs/experimental/langchain_experimental/generative_agents/memory.py
• libs/langchain/langchain/memory/init.py
• libs/langchain/langchain/memory/buffer.py

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[yazanrisheh]

@dosu-bot can you please combine your suggestions with my code and give me the final output? I am a beginner at coding and still dont know how to do it properly

[dosubot[bot]]

🤖

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out and providing a detailed description of your issue. Based on the context provided, it seems like you need to implement a caching mechanism to prevent LangChain from providing inconsistent responses and repeating the same answer multiple times.

Here's how you can modify your code to include the caching mechanism:

First, define a ResponseCache class at the beginning of your code:

class ResponseCache:
    def __init__(self):
        self.cache = {}

    def get_response(self, input):
        return self.cache.get(input)

    def add_response(self, input, response):
        self.cache[input] = response

response_cache = ResponseCache()

Then, in your main function, before calling the qa function, check if the response for the given question is already cached. If it is, print the cached response. If not, proceed with the qa function, cache the response, and then print it:

while True:
    question = input("Ask me anything about the files (type 'exit' to quit): ")
    if question.lower() in ["exit"] and len(question) == 4:
        end_chat = "Thank you for visiting us! Have a nice day"
        print_letter_by_letter(end_chat)
        break
    if question:
        cached_response = response_cache.get_response(question)
        if cached_response:
            print("AI:", cached_response)
        else:
            with get_openai_callback() as cb:
                response = qa({"question": question}, return_only_outputs = False)
            response_cache.add_response(question, response)
            print("AI:", response)
            print(cb)

This modification should help prevent LangChain from providing inconsistent responses and repeating the same answer multiple times.

Please let me know if this helps or if you have any other questions.

Sources

• libs/langchain/langchain/chains/qa_with_sources/stuff_prompt.py
• libs/langchain/langchain/chains/api/base.py
• libs/langchain/langchain/cache.py

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[yazanrisheh]

@dosu-bot This is my entire code and I want you to implement the changes needed on my code and then share the entire code that is edited. My issue is inconsistent responses and repeats the answer 3-4 times.

My code:

from dotenv import load_dotenv import csv import PyPDF2 from PyPDF2 import PdfReader from langchain.document_loaders import DirectoryLoader, PyPDFLoader, PyPDFDirectoryLoader from langchain.text_splitter import RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter from langchain.embeddings.openai import OpenAIEmbeddings from langchain.callbacks import get_openai_callback from langchain.chat_models import ChatOpenAI from langchain.chains import ConversationalRetrievalChain from langchain.memory import ConversationBufferMemory from langchain.prompts import PromptTemplate import time from langchain.vectorstores import Qdrant from langchain.vectorstores import Chroma from langchain.vectorstores import deeplake from langchain.chains.qa_with_sources import load_qa_with_sources_chain from langchain.callbacks import StreamingStdOutCallbackHandler import pandas as pd from docx import Document from nltk.tokenize import sent_tokenize, word_tokenize from collections import Counter from nltk.corpus import stopwords import os

def print_letter_by_letter(text): for char in text: print(char, end='', flush=True) time.sleep(0.02)

def main(): load_dotenv() my_activeloop_org_id = "yazanrisheh" my_activeloop_dataset_name = "langchain_course_customer_support" dataset_path = f"hub://{my_activeloop_org_id}/{my_activeloop_dataset_name}"

directory_path = input("Copy your directory path here or upload a file: ")

directory_path = "C:\\Users\\Asus\\Documents\\Vendolista"

pdf_loader = DirectoryLoader(directory_path,
                              glob="**/*.pdf",
                              show_progress=True,
                              use_multithreading=True,
                              silent_errors=True,
                              loader_cls = PyPDFLoader)

# pdf_loader = PyPDFDirectoryLoader(directory_path)

documents = pdf_loader.load()
print(str(len(documents))+ " documents loaded")

llm = ChatOpenAI(temperature = 0, model_name='gpt-3.5-turbo', callbacks=[StreamingStdOutCallbackHandler()], streaming = True)

# Split into chunks
text_splitter = RecursiveCharacterTextSplitter(
    chunk_size=800,
    chunk_overlap=80,
)
chunks = text_splitter.split_documents(documents)

embeddings = OpenAIEmbeddings()

persist_directory = "C:\\Users\\Asus\\OneDrive\\Documents\\Vendolista"
knowledge_base = Chroma.from_documents(chunks, embeddings, persist_directory = persist_directory)
# save to disk
knowledge_base.persist() 
#To delete the DB we created at first so that we can be sure that we will load from disk as fresh db
knowledge_base = None
new_knowledge_base = Chroma(persist_directory = persist_directory, embedding_function = embeddings)

# weird_knowledge_base = deeplake(chunks, dataset_path=dataset_path, embedding=embeddings)
# knowledge_base = Qdrant(documents, embeddings)

p_template = """Given the following conversation and a follow up question, rephrase the follow up question to be a standalone question, in its original language.
If the Standalone question is empty or cannot be generated, use the follow up question as Standalone question.
Chat History:
{chat_history}
Follow Up Input: {question}
Standalone question:"""

#CONDENSE_QUESTION_PROMPT = PromptTemplate.from_template(_template)
CONDENSE_QUESTION_PROMPT = PromptTemplate(input_variables=["chat_history","question"],
template=p_template)
memory = ConversationBufferMemory(memory_key="chat_history",input_key="question",output_key='answer',return_messages=True)

chatTemplate = """
Important: You are an intelligent chatbot designed to help agents by answering questions only on Enterprise services & activities.
Answer the question only if there is information in the chat history(delimited by ) and context(delimited by ) below.

If context is not empty and answer cannot be determined from context, say "I cannot detemine the answer from context".
If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know, don't try to make up an answer.
Do not print your answer starting with "Answer:"
{context} ----------- {chat_history} ----------- Question: {question} Answer: Answer the question only if there is information based on the chat history(delimited by ) and context(delimited by ) below. 1. If context is not empty and answer cannot be determined from context, say "I cannot detemine the answer from context". 2. If you don't know the answer, just say that you don't know, don't try to make up an answer. 3. Do not print your answer starting with "Answer:"
"""

promptHist = PromptTemplate(
input_variables=["context", "question", "chat_history"],
template=chatTemplate
)

qa = ConversationalRetrievalChain.from_llm(
llm = llm,
retriever = new_knowledge_base.as_retriever(),
condense_question_prompt=CONDENSE_QUESTION_PROMPT,
verbose=True,
memory=memory,
condense_question_llm=llm,
return_generated_question=False,
combine_docs_chain_kwargs={"prompt": promptHist},
return_source_documents=False,
)

while True:
    question = input("Ask me anything about the files (type 'exit' to quit): ")

    if question.lower() in ["exit"] and len(question) == 4:
        end_chat = "Thank you for visiting us! Have a nice day"
        print_letter_by_letter(end_chat)
        break

    if question:

        # chat_history = []
        with get_openai_callback() as cb:
            response = qa({"question": question}, return_only_outputs = False)

        # chat_history.append(('user', question))
        # chat_history.append(('AI', response))
        print("AI:", response)
        print(cb)

if name == 'main': main()

[dosubot[bot]]

🤖

Hello,

Thank you for reaching out and providing a detailed explanation of your issue. I understand that you're experiencing inconsistent responses and repeated answers from your LangChain application.

To address these issues, you can implement a mechanism to track previous responses and check new responses against them before sending. This can be done by maintaining a list or dictionary of previous responses. Here's a simple way to do it:

# Initialize an empty list to store previous responses
previous_responses = []

def generate_response(question, summaries):
    # Use the LangChain framework to generate a response
    response = PROMPT.render(summaries=summaries, question=question)

    # Check if the response is in the list of previous responses
    if response in previous_responses:
        # If it is, generate a new response or handle the repetition in a suitable way
        response = "Repeated response, generating a new one..."
    else:
        # If it's not a repeated response, add it to the list of previous responses
        previous_responses.append(response)

    return response

You can call this function generate_response in your main function where you are generating the responses. This function will check if the generated response is already in the list of previous responses. If it is, it will generate a new response. If it's not a repeated response, it will add it to the list of previous responses.

This is a basic implementation and might need to be adjusted based on the specifics of your application. For example, you might want to implement a more sophisticated comparison method if you want to avoid responses that are similar but not identical. You might also want to implement a mechanism to remove old responses from the list if it gets too large, to avoid using too much memory.

I hope this helps! If you have any other questions or need further clarification, please don't hesitate to ask.

Best, Dosu

Sources

• libs/langchain/langchain/chains/qa_with_sources/stuff_prompt.py
• libs/langchain/langchain/llms/init.py
• libs/langchain/langchain/tools/init.py
• libs/langchain/langchain/init.py
• libs/langchain/langchain/chains/init.py

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