SherlockMediBot

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  Github hosted webpage with cohere api chat response, including hyperlink sources and sources summary

Inspiration

Oscar is from Mexico, where there is rampant misinformation online about certain diseases, medicines, and a lot of social media influencers who claim ridiculous health facts and give advice to people. We wanted to reduce the harm of misinformation through a fun threads bot.

What it does

A threads user can reply to a thread and @ our bot account to have it look through the post, and respond with sources that either support or disagree with the content.

How we built it

We used cohere's api and prompt engineered the chat bot to reply to posts and provide reliable sources from WHO, HHS, nutrition.gov, nih.gov, and more.

Challenges we ran into

Threads has a 500 character limit, so we had to find a workaround to provide more information. As a two person team without much front-end experience, we found it difficult to setup a nice looking frontend for the bot's replies to be hosted.

What we learnt

Learned more about LLM's and cohere's api, learned more about prompt engineering. More experience working with UI and web scraping.

Built With

• cohere
• css3
• html
• python