AI Assistant Concept
Artificial Intelligence and all the tools built upon it are extremely hyped. Implementing production-ready applications at this phase of AI development can be difficult.
The main problem is to have a stable application, which will be user-friendly. However, as developers, we can build tools for ourselves pretty easily.
We must connect programming skills with AI APIs or frameworks, which are responsible for developing applications powered by language models.
One of these frameworks is LangChain, described in the next paragraphs.
AI Assistant Structure
How should it look like?
Before implementation of an AI Assistant, it is necessary to ask yourself questions:
- for what do I need it,
- What are my programming skills?
- Maybe I should use no code tools?
- How much time can I put into building it?
- What tools, and apps do I use every day, maybe they have API interfaces so that I can connect them with AI.
Below I will present you the current implementation of my AI Assistant.
The above diagram will make more sense when I present the implemented features.
Let's start with tracking home budgets and expenses.
Tracking Expenses
Tracking expenses is a headache, personally, I tried to sit down with Excel and scan my receipts or banking history. Then categorize that and count. It requires a lot of work, but...
Last weekend I found the solution which will be glad to share.
According to the diagram of the flow, let's go deeper into the steps:
- make a photo of a receipt (automation proceeds in every language, but the example is in polish. However, the output is always translated to English)
- start shortcut
The above shortcut can be set to be run on voice or a combination of buttons.
It extracts the text from a photo, which looks like this:
F.H.U. BOSMAN NEJSCIE NA PLAZE NR 1 84-120 NEADYSLAMOWO (B) NIP 5871543717 nr: 4035 PARAGON FISKALNY WODA 1szt. ×5,00 5,00A FUZETEA 1szt. x6,00 6,00A PINO 0,5L. 1szt. x8,00 8,00A SOK DO PIWA * 1szt. ×1,00 1,00B DORSZ FIL.SMAZ.ZST 1szt. x27,00 27,00B FLADRA TUSZ. SMAZ. ZESTAL 1szt. ×25,00 25,00B SANDACZ FILET SMAZ. ZESTAH 1szt. ×31,00 31,00B SPRZEDAZ OPODATKONANA A 19,00 SPRZEDAZ OPODATKONANA B 84.00 1 , PTU A 23% 3,55 PTU B 8% 6,22 SUMA PTU 9,77 SUMA PLN 103,00 ROZLICZENIE PLATNOSCI GOTOAKA 103,00 PLN 00073 #1 KELNER 2021-07-04 14:36 539BE78CAA52CE22792DBE9896233813385284F6
This text is passed to the API as a body of a request.
- API
This script proceeds the text into the correct output, which is Posted to Notion Budget Tracker.
- Notion Budget Tracker
As can be seen, expenses are added one by one with one of the categories that were defined.
The presented code is still in MVP, but the above idea will be wrapped in a product and launched in the upcoming weeks.
The current implementation also assigns the category of an expense that is fetched directly from Notion, to avoid assigning some random categories which would be difficult to track in charts, etc.
Notion Budget Tracker
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Still waiting for my delivery to share with you about the content, but below you can find an interesting video with the review:
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