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Building Data-Driven Applications with LlamaIndex

Building Data-Driven Applications with LlamaIndex

By : Andrei Gheorghiu
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Building Data-Driven Applications with LlamaIndex

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Overview of this book

Discover the immense potential of Generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs) with this comprehensive guide. Learn to overcome LLM limitations, such as contextual memory constraints, prompt size issues, real-time data gaps, and occasional ‘hallucinations’. Follow practical examples to personalize and launch your LlamaIndex projects, mastering skills in ingesting, indexing, querying, and connecting dynamic knowledge bases. From fundamental LLM concepts to LlamaIndex deployment and customization, this book provides a holistic grasp of LlamaIndex's capabilities and applications. By the end, you'll be able to resolve LLM challenges and build interactive AI-driven applications using best practices in prompt engineering and troubleshooting Generative AI projects.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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Who this book is for
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What this book covers
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Conventions used
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Part 1:Introduction to Generative AI and LlamaIndex
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Part 1:Introduction to Generative AI and LlamaIndex
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Chapter 1: Understanding Large Language Models
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Chapter 1: Understanding Large Language Models
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Introducing GenAI and LLMs
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Understanding the role of LLMs in modern technology
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Exploring challenges with LLMs
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Augmenting LLMs with RAG
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Summary
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Chapter 2: LlamaIndex: The Hidden Jewel - An Introduction to the LlamaIndex Ecosystem
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Chapter 2: LlamaIndex: The Hidden Jewel - An Introduction to the LlamaIndex Ecosystem
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Technical requirements
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Optimizing language models – the symbiosis of fine-tuning, RAG, and LlamaIndex
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Discovering the advantages of progressively disclosing complexity
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Introducing PITS – our LlamaIndex hands-on project
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Preparing our coding environment
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Familiarizing ourselves with the structure of the LlamaIndex code repository
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Summary
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Part 2: Starting Your First LlamaIndex Project
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Part 2: Starting Your First LlamaIndex Project
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Chapter 3: Kickstarting Your Journey with LlamaIndex
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Chapter 3: Kickstarting Your Journey with LlamaIndex
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Technical requirements
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Uncovering the essential building blocks of LlamaIndex – documents, nodes, and indexes
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Building our first interactive, augmented LLM application
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Starting our PITS project – hands-on exercise
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Summary
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Chapter 4: Ingesting Data into Our RAG Workflow
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Chapter 4: Ingesting Data into Our RAG Workflow
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Technical requirements
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Ingesting data via LlamaHub
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An overview of LlamaHub
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Using the LlamaHub data loaders to ingest content
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Parsing the documents into nodes
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Working with metadata to improve the context
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Estimating the potential cost of using metadata extractors
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Preserving privacy with metadata extractors, and not only
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Using the ingestion pipeline to increase efficiency
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Handling documents that contain a mix of text and tabular data
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Hands-on – ingesting study materials into our PITS
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Chapter 5: Indexing with LlamaIndex
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Chapter 5: Indexing with LlamaIndex
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Technical requirements
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Indexing data – a bird’s-eye view
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Understanding the VectorStoreIndex
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Persisting and reusing Indexes
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Exploring other index types in LlamaIndex
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Building Indexes on top of other Indexes with ComposableGraph
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Estimating the potential cost of building and querying Indexes
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Indexing our PITS study materials – hands-on
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Part 3: Retrieving and Working with Indexed Data
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Part 3: Retrieving and Working with Indexed Data
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Chapter 6: Querying Our Data, Part 1 – Context Retrieval
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Chapter 6: Querying Our Data, Part 1 – Context Retrieval
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Technical requirements
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Learning about query mechanics – an overview
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Understanding the basic retrievers
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Building more advanced retrieval mechanisms
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Understanding the concepts of dense and sparse retrieval
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Chapter 7: Querying Our Data, Part 2 – Postprocessing and Response Synthesis
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Chapter 7: Querying Our Data, Part 2 – Postprocessing and Response Synthesis
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Technical requirements
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Re-ranking, transforming, and filtering nodes using postprocessors
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Understanding response synthesizers
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Implementing output parsing techniques
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Building and using query engines
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Hands-on – building quizzes in PITS
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Chapter 8: Building Chatbots and Agents with LlamaIndex
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Chapter 8: Building Chatbots and Agents with LlamaIndex
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Technical requirements
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Understanding chatbots and agents
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Implementing agentic strategies in our apps
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Hands-on – implementing conversation tracking for PITS
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Summary
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Part 4: Customization, Prompt Engineering, and Final Words
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Part 4: Customization, Prompt Engineering, and Final Words
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Chapter 9: Customizing and Deploying Our LlamaIndex Project
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Chapter 9: Customizing and Deploying Our LlamaIndex Project
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Technical requirements
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Customizing our RAG components
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Using advanced tracing and evaluation techniques
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Introduction to deployment with Streamlit
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HANDS-ON – a step-by-step deployment guide
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Summary
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Chapter 10: Prompt Engineering Guidelines and Best Practices
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Chapter 10: Prompt Engineering Guidelines and Best Practices
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Technical requirements
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Why prompts are your secret weapon
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Understanding how LlamaIndex uses prompts
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Customizing default prompts
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The golden rules of prompt engineering
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Chapter 11: Conclusion and Additional Resources
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Chapter 11: Conclusion and Additional Resources
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Other projects and further learning
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Key takeaways, final words, and encouragement
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Summary
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Index
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Index
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Prompt Engineering Guidelines and Best Practices

In this chapter, we embark on an exploration of how the latest advancements in technology are reshaping our interaction with digital tools and applications. As the digital landscape evolves, the traditional interfaces we’ve relied upon for decades are being reimagined, paving the way for more intuitive and efficient forms of communication between humans and machines. At the heart of this transformation is the advent of conversational interfaces powered by natural language (NL). As a result, understanding how to write effective prompts to customize the behavior of our LlamaIndex components becomes a critical skill in building and improving RAG applications.

Therefore, in this chapter, we’re going to cover the following main topics:

  • Why prompts are your secret weapon
  • Understanding how LlamaIndex uses prompts
  • Customizing default prompts
  • The golden rules of prompt engineering

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