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# Attribution
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## Base Repository
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- **Name:** uc-msai631-2025-spring/karthik-traditional-chatbot
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- **URL:** https://github.com/uc-msai631-2025-spring/karthik-traditional-chatbot
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- **Purpose in This Project:** Served as a structural and functional starting point for chatbot integration.
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- **License:** [Add license type if specified in original repo]
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## Modifications Made
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1. **AI Model & Prompting**
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- Switched to HuggingFace Zephyr-7B-Beta model
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- Added category detection, query-type parsing, and budget extraction
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- Developed context-aware prompt templates for different product categories
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2. **UI/UX Enhancements**
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- Added rich formatted demonstration greeting
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- Enhanced Gradio interface with academic branding, examples, and theme customization
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3. **Logic & Error Handling**
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- Implemented advanced conversation history trimming
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- Added intelligent fallback responses when model inference fails
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- Structured responses with headers, bullet points, and product comparisons
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4. **Academic Adaptation**
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- Framed the system as part of a Human-Computer Interaction research demonstration for the University of the Cumberlands course MSAI-631-M20
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- Added documentation and structured descriptions for research purposes
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