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Avi Schiffmann

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The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

I've taken a look online at some tools and I think the only real open source projects that exist for this is like MemGPT and MemZero, which are OK, simple implementations. But, you know, I would I think there's many people that would gladly pay for a service like this. So I'd like to discuss that with you, Greg.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

I've taken a look online at some tools and I think the only real open source projects that exist for this is like MemGPT and MemZero, which are OK, simple implementations. But, you know, I would I think there's many people that would gladly pay for a service like this. So I'd like to discuss that with you, Greg.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

They're building personalities. They're building these niche... I don't know how to say niche, but they're building chatbots. And honestly, if you're worried about competition, then that's your f***ing problem. You shouldn't be building a startup in the first place. I don't know what to tell you. If you view your work as art, you have no competition. You have no fear of failure.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

They're building personalities. They're building these niche... I don't know how to say niche, but they're building chatbots. And honestly, if you're worried about competition, then that's your f***ing problem. You shouldn't be building a startup in the first place. I don't know what to tell you. If you view your work as art, you have no competition. You have no fear of failure.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

They're building personalities. They're building these niche... I don't know how to say niche, but they're building chatbots. And honestly, if you're worried about competition, then that's your f***ing problem. You shouldn't be building a startup in the first place. I don't know what to tell you. If you view your work as art, you have no competition. You have no fear of failure.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

That is entirely your problem. I'm not here to discuss your fears of competition. But RAG stands for, I believe, Retrieval Augmented Generation, I think, which just means that you give just facts or memories or whatever as part of your system prompt or user prompt. And those memories obviously change the output, right?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

That is entirely your problem. I'm not here to discuss your fears of competition. But RAG stands for, I believe, Retrieval Augmented Generation, I think, which just means that you give just facts or memories or whatever as part of your system prompt or user prompt. And those memories obviously change the output, right?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

That is entirely your problem. I'm not here to discuss your fears of competition. But RAG stands for, I believe, Retrieval Augmented Generation, I think, which just means that you give just facts or memories or whatever as part of your system prompt or user prompt. And those memories obviously change the output, right?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

Like if I ask a question to, you know, you have a system prompt that just says, like, I am a helpful assistant. And then I ask a question, you know, what is my favorite car? Obviously, that bot is not going to have any memory of that and is just going to say, well, I don't know. You never told me that. But if you have a system where when I say, what is my favorite car, it's able to take

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

Like if I ask a question to, you know, you have a system prompt that just says, like, I am a helpful assistant. And then I ask a question, you know, what is my favorite car? Obviously, that bot is not going to have any memory of that and is just going to say, well, I don't know. You never told me that. But if you have a system where when I say, what is my favorite car, it's able to take

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

Like if I ask a question to, you know, you have a system prompt that just says, like, I am a helpful assistant. And then I ask a question, you know, what is my favorite car? Obviously, that bot is not going to have any memory of that and is just going to say, well, I don't know. You never told me that. But if you have a system where when I say, what is my favorite car, it's able to take

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

basically what I said. And then I believe the way it kind of works right now is you would basically embed that. So you would kind of, uh, I don't know how to explain embeddings necessarily. Um, you kind of just create like a, like a semantic, like relational map, I guess, of like that sentence that I said. So, you know, you would basically just take like car, right.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

basically what I said. And then I believe the way it kind of works right now is you would basically embed that. So you would kind of, uh, I don't know how to explain embeddings necessarily. Um, you kind of just create like a, like a semantic, like relational map, I guess, of like that sentence that I said. So, you know, you would basically just take like car, right.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

basically what I said. And then I believe the way it kind of works right now is you would basically embed that. So you would kind of, uh, I don't know how to explain embeddings necessarily. Um, you kind of just create like a, like a semantic, like relational map, I guess, of like that sentence that I said. So, you know, you would basically just take like car, right.

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

And find something that, you know, is the closest match to car. Right. But you would, you would, you would take that, um, Well, I guess before you would do that, you would say to the assistant, you know, my favorite car is a Porsche, okay? A Porsche 911. And it would just kind of... You know, the models have a concept of automobiles and cars, right?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

And find something that, you know, is the closest match to car. Right. But you would, you would, you would take that, um, Well, I guess before you would do that, you would say to the assistant, you know, my favorite car is a Porsche, okay? A Porsche 911. And it would just kind of... You know, the models have a concept of automobiles and cars, right?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

And find something that, you know, is the closest match to car. Right. But you would, you would, you would take that, um, Well, I guess before you would do that, you would say to the assistant, you know, my favorite car is a Porsche, okay? A Porsche 911. And it would just kind of... You know, the models have a concept of automobiles and cars, right?

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

And like a Porsche 911 is like kind of close to that concept of a car. So if you imagine just like a 3D space, right? Those are... They're kind of just close to each other, okay? And then so...

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

And like a Porsche 911 is like kind of close to that concept of a car. So if you imagine just like a 3D space, right? Those are... They're kind of just close to each other, okay? And then so...

The Startup Ideas Podcast
"Y Combinator Is Overrated" - Inside the brain of this 20-Year-Old Who Built Multiple Viral Products

And like a Porsche 911 is like kind of close to that concept of a car. So if you imagine just like a 3D space, right? Those are... They're kind of just close to each other, okay? And then so...