Semantic Kernel

Supercharge Your Semantic Kernel Experience: Unleashing the Power of Pre and Post Hooks

September 25, 2023 Sep 25, 2023 09/25/23

Nilesh Acharya

Semantic Kernel is a powerful SDK that enables developers to build intelligent applications with ease. With the latest update to the .net SDK, the addition of pre and post hooks takes the functionality of Semantic Kernel to new heights. Benefits of Pre and Post Hooks Pre and post hooks provide developers with a way to intercept function ...

Save Time with Semantic Kernel’s Updated Error Handling

September 21, 2023 Sep 21, 2023 09/21/23

Nilesh Acharya

Error handling is an essential aspect of application development. It ensures that applications can gracefully handle unexpected situations and provide meaningful feedback to users. In this blog post, we will explore the recent improvements made by the team to the error handling mechanism in the Semantic Kernel (SK) .net library. ...

Evaluate your plugins and planners with Prompt flow

September 7, 2023 Sep 7, 2023 09/7/23

Matthew Bolanos

As you build plugins and add them to planners, it's important to make sure they work as intended. This becomes more important as you add more and more plugins to your planners. With more functions, your planners have a greater chance of hallucinating and doing incorrect things. Until now, testing your plugins and planners was a manual ...

GUEST POST – EmbedElite Meets Semantic Kernel: A Game-changer for Context Retrieval

September 1, 2023 Sep 1, 2023 09/1/23

Lukas Schmyrczyk

Introduction We are EmbedElite, proud winners of the recent Semantic Kernel Plugins Hackathon. A common challenge for enterprises is the extensive effort in gathering and preparing the necessary context which isn't inherent to LLMs. Recognizing this, we at EmbedElite, set out on a mission to democratize this process, making context retrieval ...

Track Your Token Usage and Costs with Semantic Kernel

August 30, 2023 Aug 30, 2023 08/30/23

Nilesh Acharya

This is a follow up blog post to Unlock the Power of Telemetry in Semantic Kernel SDK. We are excited to share we have added logging and metering for prompt, completion, and total tokens for each request to Azure OpenAI/Open AI using Semantic Kernel. This feature will help you monitor and optimize your API usage and costs, as well as ...

Chat Copilot Performance improvements for chat and messaging loading

August 28, 2023 Aug 28, 2023 08/28/23

Nilesh Acharya

We are introducing enhancements to greatly improve performance, reduce cost and data throughput for customers of Chat Copilot. In the current design, partitions are defined by an ID. Overtime as the CosmosDB grows with increased storage we have seen scenarios with extended processing time when customers try to load the list of chats for a ...

GUEST POST: Getting Started with Semantic Kernel for LangChain users

August 28, 2023 Aug 28, 2023 08/28/23

Gopi Kumar

Large language models such as GPT4 and chatGPT have created a revolution in the way people build innovative new applications and experiences. I describe how I got started with building LLM applications and point to some resources I created in this process that I hope will help in your own exploration into this exciting area of software ...

Using Planners in the SK Java Kernel

August 21, 2023 Aug 21, 2023 08/21/23

Soham Dasgupta

Dynamic AI planners are a useful tool when you are not sure what type of asks are going to come in from your users.  Let's learn how you can use planners in the Java kernel.  In my previous blog on using the Java kernel, on Step #5 I explained how to use multiple Plugins and their Functions one after another. In this post, I will show you...

GUEST POST: Semantic Kernel and Weaviate: Orchestrating interactions around LLMs with long-term memory

August 16, 2023 Aug 16, 2023 08/16/23

Zain Hasan

The Emerging LLM Stack In a recent interview, the co-founder of Cohere stated - “For the first time in the history of our planet, we have machines that we’ve created that can use our language.” A bold statement indeed, but it couldn’t be more accurate and we’ve all witnessed the incredible power of said machines. It would be an ...

Semantic Kernel Planners: Stepwise Planner

August 15, 2023 Aug 15, 2023 08/15/23

Nilesh Acharya, Lee Miller

Welcome to the third and final blog post in this series about Semantic Kernel Planners. In the previous blogs we touched on discussed the action planner and sequential planner. In this blog we will discuss Semantic Kernal's latest generation of planner called Stepwise Planner. The Stepwise Planner is a powerful planning object based on a ...