Merge branch 'microsoft:main' into huggingface_agent

.gitattributes

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+# Docker
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+
+# Documentation
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.github/workflows/contrib-tests.yml

@@ -418,9 +418,9 @@ jobs:
         os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-2019]
         python-version: ["3.11"]
     steps:
-      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v4
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
         with:
           python-version: ${{ matrix.python-version }}
       - name: Install packages and dependencies for all tests

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ repos:
       - id: ruff
         types_or: [ python, pyi, jupyter ]
         args: ["--fix", "--ignore=E402"]
+        exclude: notebook/agentchat_databricks_dbrx.ipynb
   - repo: https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell
     rev: v2.2.6
     hooks:

README.md

@@ -15,9 +15,12 @@
     <img src="https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/blob/main/website/static/img/flaml.svg"  width=200>
     <br>
 </p> -->
+
+:fire: May 24, 2024: Foundation Capital published an article on [Forbes: The Promise of Multi-Agent AI](https://www.forbes.com/sites/joannechen/2024/05/24/the-promise-of-multi-agent-ai/?sh=2c1e4f454d97) and a video [AI in the Real World Episode 2: Exploring Multi-Agent AI and AutoGen with Chi Wang](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLwyXRVvlNk).
+
 :fire: May 13, 2024: [The Economist](https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/05/13/todays-ai-models-are-impressive-teams-of-them-will-be-formidable) published an article about multi-agent systems (MAS) following a January 2024 interview with [Chi Wang](https://github.com/sonichi).
 
-:fire: May 11, 2024: [AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation](https://openreview.net/pdf?id=uAjxFFing2) received the best paper award in [ICLR 2024 LLM Agents Workshop](https://llmagents.github.io/).
+:fire: May 11, 2024: [AutoGen: Enabling Next-Gen LLM Applications via Multi-Agent Conversation](https://openreview.net/pdf?id=uAjxFFing2) received the best paper award at the [ICLR 2024 LLM Agents Workshop](https://llmagents.github.io/).
 
 :fire: Apr 26, 2024: [AutoGen.NET](https://microsoft.github.io/autogen-for-net/) is available for .NET developers!
 

autogen/agentchat/contrib/retrieve_user_proxy_agent.py

@@ -7,8 +7,8 @@
 
 try:
     import chromadb
-except ImportError:
-    raise ImportError("Please install dependencies first. `pip install pyautogen[retrievechat]`")
+except ImportError as e:
+    raise ImportError(f"{e}. You can try `pip install pyautogen[retrievechat]`, or install `chromadb` manually.")
 from autogen.agentchat import UserProxyAgent
 from autogen.agentchat.agent import Agent
 from autogen.agentchat.contrib.vectordb.base import Document, QueryResults, VectorDB, VectorDBFactory