Chat
This is not your average Chat system.
All about the Chat Interface
Main Chat Interface
Sapience features a much better chat experience than consumer chat like Chat GPT and is light years ahead of Microsoft Co-Pilot. Below is a screenshot of chatting with an Agent, and although it looks like “just a chat” there is a lot of power just one mouse-click away. Read the guide below that explains the 8 items highlighted here (most, but not all of the features available on a chat!).
Chat Interface Explained
1. Chat Header: | Lets you see the Agent you’re using, quickly access its features, as well as see the Conversation and any Share information if the chat has been shared. |
2. Chat Body: | The main chat interface that displays User messages (i.e. from you, or other humans) as well as Agent messages from one or more Agents. |
3. Clickable Suggestions | Most Agents in Sapience will suggest a series of follow-ons. It can be fun/informative to go with the flow, and drill down into topics this way. The Agent will sometimes lead you down a novel research path that helps a lot. |
4. Message & Chat Actions | Chatting with AI is nice. DOING STUFF with AI is better. From here, you can save a Message or Conversation into Notes and then you can edit it and turn it into a great document. You can also create a public link share of the Message or Conversation. You can also export right from here into PDF or Word format. |
5. Prompt Input Panel: | If you want to type a long prompt, use shift + enter, otherwise this is where you type (or speak) your prompt for the Agent. |
6. File Attachments: | See the separate dedicated articles on this, but there’s a lot of power hiding behind this little paperclip icon. |
7. Voice Mode: | One of the biggest reasons regular users fail at AI is not giving the AI or Agent enough context. Most execs can’t type 100 words a minute like the Sapience devs can, and yet we all use Voice a lot. Why? Because AI thrives on context. Use Voice Prompting to provide longer, richer prompts and you will get immediate improvements in your outputs. |
8. Agent Output Mode | See the separate article about output modes, but this has a major impact on how the Agent answers you and how long it takes. This is essentially a “smartness” slider. You can dial up the smarts, but be aware that will also increase the processing time. |
Chat Inputs & Outputs
Multi-line prompts: use shift+enter to do multi line prompts. You can otherwise type in here, paste in content, and or paste in an image from your clipboard (e.g. a screenshot being held in your computer’s RAM).
Attaching Files: see the dedicated article on this powerful subsystem.
Output Modes: read this article to understand the power of Modes.
Sidebar Actions
From the left sidebar you have additional options for a Conversation - most importantly the Share option. Sharing lets you create either a public link share (anyone with the URL and the optional password can access the conversation, read-only) or you can create user-to-user shares. Think of these as group chats. Its you plus at least one other human, chatting with one or more Agents.
Floating / Embedded Chat
In various parts of the system you will see these floating chat windows. The first thing to know is that you can drag these around by using the 6 dot “handle” at the top left. The second thing to know is that you can navigate to the full screen Chat interface by clicking the option at the top right. In general these are used where its likely that you want to look at data in that area of the app as well as talk to an AI at the same time. Chat-with-File-Agent and Chat-with-Project-Agent are the main two use cases but there are others as well.
