SMRTR AIMay 13, 2025Daily.dev

Using the new AI template to create a chatbot about a website

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A new .NET AI Chat Web App template enables developers to create chatbots for specific content. This post shows how to modify the template to chat about a podcast website instead of PDFs. The author implements a custom ingestion source to crawl web pages, parse HTML, and generate vector embeddings. The resulting chatbot answers questions about the podcast, citing relevant episodes. The ingestion process is slow, taking about 40 minutes for 250 pages. The post ends with suggestions for improvement.

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