馃HYDE in GenAI: How "Hypothetical Thinking" Improves Answer RetrievalBetween morning lectures, lab reports, and debugging code late into the night, efficient problem-solving becomes essential. When you're stuck on a concept or trying to recall details for a project, having a system that can pull up accurate answers fa...Apr 23, 2025 路 5 min readhyde-in-rag.hashnode.dev
From Step-Back to Chain-of-Thought: Navigating the Abstraction Spectrum 馃鈿欙笍In my last post, I shared a technique called Step-Back Prompting鈥攂asically, a way to get a large language model (LLM) to zoom out and think in broad strokes before solving a complex problem. This time, I鈥檓 looking at something that works in the oppos...Apr 23, 2025 路 5 min readchain-of-though-in-rag.hashnode.dev
馃 Step-Back Prompting: A Simple Trick That Helps AI Think More ClearlyExploring Generative AI can feel overwhelming at first, especially when you're learning how to write prompts that actually work. But sometimes, small changes in how you ask a question can make a huge difference in how well an AI model answers it. One...Apr 23, 2025 路 4 min readstepback-prompting.hashnode.dev
Fan-Out Retrieval: Boosting Search in ParallelUnlock lightning-fast search with parallel processing for smarter, scalable, and efficient results 馃 What is Parallel Query (Fan-Out), and Why Does AI Still Understand You Even When You Mess Up? Let鈥檚 say you鈥檙e chatting with an AI like ChatGPT, Cla...Apr 22, 2025 路 5 min readfan-out-retrieval-boost-parallel-search.hashnode.dev
馃敆 Reciprocal Rank Fusion: Combining Rankings for Smarter Search馃 What is Reciprocal Rank Fusion, and How Does It Understands Your Query To Give you The Correct Answer? Let鈥檚 say you鈥檙e chatting with an AI like Perplexity for your research. You somehow didn鈥檛 give the proper context. But somehow... it still give...Apr 21, 2025 路 7 min readrank-reciprocal-fusionn.hashnode.dev
