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Everyone's building agents right now. But a better question than "can an agent do this?" is "when does an agent actually beat something simpler?" For the TigerGraph Agentic GraphRAG Hackathon, I built three question-answering pipelines side by side to find out. The dataset was ~2,900 Wikipedia articles about Olympic events, plus 100 evaluation questions with answers and 50 hidden ones. The questions came in five types: simple lookups, multi-hop questions ("who won gold at this venue on this date?"), temporal ones ("…at the Olympics held immediately before 2016"), aggregations ("how many biathl
Want a WhatsApp chatbot without going through Meta's business verification, template approvals, and per-conversation pricing? Combine n8n (the open-source workflow automation tool) with WaSphere — an open-source (MIT), self-hosted WhatsApp API — and you get a fully self-hosted chatbot stack on your own server. WaSphere connects to WhatsApp (scan a QR code once) and exposes a local REST API plus HMAC-signed webhooks. n8n receives inbound messages via a Webhook trigger, runs your bot logic, and calls WaSphere's API to send replies. No Meta approval, no per-message platform fees, and your convers
Why Voice AI Matters for Startups If you’re building a SaaS product, a mobile app, or an interactive voice bot, the ability to generate natural‑sounding speech can be a game‑changer. Voice AI lets you: Add accessibility for users with visual impairments. Create engaging audio content for marketing or tutorials. Power conversational agents that feel human‑like, boosting retention. But the market is crowded: dozens of services promise “real‑time, studio‑grade” speech synthesis.
This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Weekend Challenge: Build for a Friend I built Driftnet for my friend Samuel. Before I wrote any code I asked him one question: what is actually going wrong for you? Samuel is always busy and always building something, and ideas, links and opportunities reach him from everywhere. He did not give me a feature list. He told me a story.
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