LlamaIndex on LinkedIn: ✨New OSS repo✨ Build a Slack bot that listens to your conversations… (2024)

We’re excited to launch the definitive repo for helping you build an LLM-powered Slackbot, in an 8-part tutorial series 🔥: ✅ Connect to Slack and set up the appropriate event triggers✅ Build an initial RAG pipeline with LlamaIndex + Qdrant✅ Make it a lot more advanced with recency weighting, metadata (to attach time/person), and ability to handle followup questions.✅ Easily deploy to Render A lot of this is learning the use-case specific tips and tricks to index/retrieve/search over user conversation history. HUGE shoutout to Laurie Voss for putting this together. It’s not just a repo, it’s structured as a full-on tutorial for you to check out! Repo: https://lnkd.in/gGCr9KBzBlog post: https://lnkd.in/gvhhQHbd

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Last week, we brought Slack to Plain.One of our core foundations with Plain is reliability. For our customers, support is the first place their customers turn to when things go wrong – so we can't miss a single message.Our very own Preslav Mihaylov has now written a 🔥 post on how we both moved super quickly in building this feature, and yet still built something that was robust and reliable.3 key points:🚤 How we went from kickoff to working feature in one weekTo get to a full vertical cut of the feature as quickly as possible, we didn’t write any tests, ignored edge cases and kept all Slack related code contained by using feature flags and a separate code structure.🧱 How we achieved rock-solid reliabilityOnce we had confidence that the scope and approach of our MVP was correct, we started focusing on making it reliable and ensuring that any issues and bugs would be limited in blast radius.🚨 Not just erroring, but erroring wellSlack has dozens of message subtypes, plus a few more that are not documented. Whatever we shipped had to account for the unexpected, so we built a system to ensure that even messages we couldn't parse would be flagged to our customers.All of our lessons learned in the post 👇

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Last week we launched our new Slack integration. Today Preslav Mihaylov shares a technical deep dive into how we built it 👇 🚢 Working prototype in one week: We didn't write tests, ignored edge cases, and built in an isolated way to get a working version out as quickly as possible.🧱Building for reliability: We used an S3 bucket to receive events from our slack-webhook-handler, routed failure messages to a DLQ and isolated the blast radius of failures as much as possible. This gave us the confidence that we weren't impacting other parts of our systems.🚨Not just erroring, but erroring well: We invested the time upfront to build a robust error notification system with multiple fallbacks to make sure that we could react quickly and minimize impact on our customers. Read about all of this in our latest blog post - https://lnkd.in/dHmAzXwi

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You'd be blown away with what custom slack bots can do for your bizie: send a deliverable link to the client,capture button presses, text, multiple choice, dateevent handling (ie: when they join slack, or trigger event based on emoji reactions/replies)

🆕 Did you see we recently upgraded our Slack integration to include host notifications? With the new upgrade, in addition to being able to send notifications into Slack channels, they can also be sent straight to a host's direct messages. Learn more: https://ow.ly/Flil50PTMEM#SignInApp #VisitorManagement #Notifications #SlackIntegration

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You'd be blown away with what custom slack bots can do for your bizie: send a deliverable link to the client,capture button presses, text, multiple choice, dateevent handling (ie: when they join slack, or trigger event based on emoji reactions/replies)

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At the stage we're at, moving fast is crucial in order to reach product-market-fit and delight customers, but it is equally important that we ensure they don't miss any of their important conversations happening in Plain.Check out the latest article I wrote for our blog to get a glimpse into some of the engineering challenges and trade-offs we had to make to strike a balance between shipping fast and sustaining high reliability.

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✨ Back with another new feature: In just a few clicks, you can turn Slack notifications into buttons that let you update Airtable records directly. Make approvals or request changes right from Slack. Learn more here: https://ow.ly/bQIz50PseaM

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Happy Friday Product-Led Alliance 🎉Read all about what we've been up to in this week's Friday Slack newsletter 👇https://lnkd.in/eGvjYK2jNot a member of our Slack community? Join below 👇https://lnkd.in/dD3M8FPZHappy reading!#productledalliance#productnewsletter

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