feat (sidebar) allow chat without any files selected. #975
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With this change only, the prompt sent to the llm needs to be changed. If there are no files, it does not make sense |
@CyprienRicque that's a good point. It should be fairly simple to alter the system prompt. Does this warrant introducing a new mode such as "chatting" with a different system prompt & avanterules file? Or should we simply omit parts of the prompt when there are not context files? Excuse my ignorance but what would the impact of leaving those references in the system prompt? As far as I can tell from testing, behaviour is consistent with and without file context. Having the extra guidelines doesn't seem to impact or confuse the LLM. It's also possible for users to override the prompt if you're looking for something tailored to your use case: https://github.com/yetone/avante.nvim?tab=readme-ov-file#custom-prompts |
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I think that having extra useless guidelines does in fact alter the model performance, but only from experience using these models and from my understanding on them. You probably can see if you attempt a problem at the limit of what the model can solve. It might fail with extra useless guidelines. I believe adding a |
Small change to allow a user to remove all files without closing the sidebar. I've created this as a result of this issue: #970.
I'm not sure if it was intended that the sidebar would close when the file context was removed as the WinClosed auto command is closing the entire sidebar.
Happy to find another way if we'd prefer to have the selected files container not visible after all files have been deleted.
Raised PR as a result of this isssue: #970
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