diff --git a/content/blog/A Simple Honcho Primer.md b/content/blog/A Simple Honcho Primer.md index 144e62c04..e1161907a 100644 --- a/content/blog/A Simple Honcho Primer.md +++ b/content/blog/A Simple Honcho Primer.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags: Welcome to our quick, ELI5[^1] guide to [Honcho](https://honcho.dev). -We'll cover [[A Simple Honcho Primer#^ef795f|what Honcho is]], [[A Simple Honcho Primer#^x125da|why we built it]], [[A Simple Honcho Primer#^1d2d3c|how to use it]], and [[A Simple Honcho Primer#^ca46d7|where the product is going]]. +We'll cover [[A Simple Honcho Primer#^ef795f|what Honcho is]], [[A Simple Honcho Primer#^x125da|why we built it]], [[A Simple Honcho Primer#^cd2d3c|how to use it]], and [[A Simple Honcho Primer#^ca46d7|where the product is going]]. And throughout, we'll link to places you can dive deeper[^2]. @@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ Right now, Honcho is in private beta, that means integrating our hosted version In its current form, Honcho has three core components: -1. [[Announcing Honcho's Private Beta#^415f37|Storage]] - managing each user's data -2. [[Announcing Honcho's Private Beta#^453717|Inference]] - processing user data with our proprietary AI models +1. [[Announcing Honcho's Private Beta#^x15f37|Storage]] - managing each user's data +2. [[Announcing Honcho's Private Beta#^x53717|Inference]] - processing user data with our proprietary AI models 3. [[Announcing Honcho's Private Beta#^ee4516|Retrieval]] - surfacing user data to personalize user experience (UX) If you've heard of [Retrieval Augmented Generation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt_engineering#Retrieval-augmented_generation) (RAG), this might sound familiar. But Honcho is doing *much* more than simple RAG. @@ -52,18 +52,18 @@ But this might not be intuitive for a few reasons: Still, when interacting with an AI app, there's a sense that it *should* be getting to know us. In fact, we're often surprised when we realize it's not learning about us over time. And probably annoyed at having to start over. -There's [[Announcing Honcho's Private Beta#^5b6ef1|enormous potenial]] for more positive-sum use of user data and for aligning AI applications more closely with user needs and preferences. +There's [[Announcing Honcho's Private Beta#^xb6ef1|enormous potenial]] for more positive-sum use of user data and for aligning AI applications more closely with user needs and preferences. ## How to Use Honcho ^cd2d3c ## What's Next for Honcho -^5a46d7 +^ca46d7 -Beyond improving our internal AI models so they can get to know users as richly as possible, we see three natural extensions in [[Announcing Honcho's Private Beta|Honcho's future]]: +Beyond improving our internal AI models so they can get to know users as richly as possible, we see three natural extensions in [[Announcing Honcho's Private Beta#^eb15f3|Honcho's future]]: -1. [[Announcing Honcho's Private Beta#^82dd3b|Monitoring & Evaluation]] - developer tools to understand & assess the impact of personalization + machine learning tools to build personalized datasets +1. [[Announcing Honcho's Private Beta#^x2dd3b|Monitoring & Evaluation]] - developer tools to understand & assess the impact of personalization + machine learning tools to build personalized datasets 2. [[Announcing Honcho's Private Beta#^a84f44|User-Facing Controls]] - chat with *your* Honcho to direct how it manages & shares data + authenticate with Honcho to sign-in to AI apps 3. [[Announcing Honcho's Private Beta#^ebf071|A Honcho Application Ecosystem]] - a network of apps contributing to & sharing Honcho data, user-owned & stored in confidential environments diff --git a/content/blog/Announcing Honcho's Private Beta.md b/content/blog/Announcing Honcho's Private Beta.md index e15243fa8..05d03e8e6 100644 --- a/content/blog/Announcing Honcho's Private Beta.md +++ b/content/blog/Announcing Honcho's Private Beta.md @@ -45,16 +45,14 @@ You need to discover your users' unmet needs so you know how your product should Here's what the private beta currently includes, and what's on the way: #### User-Centric Storage - -^415f37 +^x15f37 Honcho allows you to [store](https://docs.honcho.dev/getting-started/architecture) `users`, `messages`, `sessions`, & `metamessages`. That is, you can effortlessly record each user interaction with you application, organized on a per-user basis, and the product of any intermediate steps in between user message and application response. It also supports `documents` and `collections`. The former to store discrete user embeddings and the latter to organize them globally across sessions. These primitives are used by Honcho's personalization engine to begin modeling user identity based on each interaction. They can also be used to "bring you own" user data or context to be computed over and utilized by Honcho. #### Personalization Engine - -^453717 +^x53717 Here's where the magic happens. Honcho leverages everything in storage to run theory of mind inference and automatically learn about each user. @@ -63,7 +61,6 @@ The personalization engine both pulls out user desires, history, beliefs, emotio Honcho is always updating user identity, so it's ready when you need it. ##### Dialectic API - ^ee4516 Our [[Introducing Honcho's Dialectic API|Dialectic API]] is how your app-side LLM interfaces with the Honcho-side agent sitting on top of each user identity. This is done in natural language. It's an AI-native endpoint for direct LLM-to-LLM communication. @@ -73,8 +70,7 @@ It allows you to inject personal context and social cognition directly into your [[Introducing Honcho's Dialectic API#^57acc3|Here's an extended list of possible ways to use it]]. #### User-Specific Monitoring (coming soon...) - -^82dd3b +^x2dd3b Soon, Honcho will support a suite of tools to get the most out of our personalization platform. @@ -88,6 +84,8 @@ Soon, Honcho will support a suite of tools to get the most out of our personaliz ### The Future of Honcho +^eb15f3 + At [Plastic Labs](https://plasticlabs.ai), we're dedicated to radically extending human agency and identity. That means giving AI superpowers to every individual. This only works in a world with a rich ecosystem of personalized agents--individually-aligned, highly distributed, and universally accessible. @@ -107,8 +105,7 @@ All that guides a roadmap including, but not limited to: - **User-facing controls** - empower users to curate their Honcho identities, authenticate with Honcho, and define sensitive data sharing policies in natural language ^a84f44 ### Who Is This For? - -^5b6ef1 +^xb6ef1 We want to build with diverse projects at all stages of development--from ideation to production.