Hello everyone,     

We are thrilled to introduce you to the newest version of the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant add-on!

Version 0.9.3 comes with several exciting features, including a chat history so you can revisit previous chats and continue where you left off, editable user entries in chat to modify conversations and explore different paths, the introduction of user-defined actions, and the possibility to provide project-specific details for more accurate AI responses.

The AI Positron Chat now provides an overall improved experience with the addition of the History drop down toolbar button that allows you to go back to previous conversations and continue them. You can also edit prompts in the chat discussion thread so you can change the conversation and continue from any point if you want to explore a different path. Additionally, the AI response appears incrementally, as soon as the AI starts generating it, and you now have the option to stop the generation of a response early if you do not consider it fit for your needs.

Version 0.9.3 also introduces user-defined AI actions. The same approach used for defining built-in actions can now be used to specify actions on the client side through the usage of a JSON configuration file. It may even be linked to a project, making it simple to share actions with everyone who works on a certain project.

The newest version of the add-on comes with the possibility to provide additional options for an action. To avoid creating too many related actions, it is now possible to specify different facets for an action that the user can choose. This can be best seen in the action that generates short descriptions, as it uses this customization to allow users in choosing different writing styles, such as clear or engaging, as well as setting the number of expected sentences that will be generated.

The Oxygen AI Positron Assistant now enables you to configure a context for all prompts in the AI Positron Assistant Preferences page. This can be set to be project specific and it allows you to pass certain information to all the built-in actions, so that the AI model will generate better and more relevant results, as it becomes more knowledgeable about your context.

It is also worth mentioning that the AI Positron activity messages have been integrated into the AI Chat view for a more streamlined and consolidated user experience, thus making the AI Activity View not needed anymore.

For additional information on the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant, including the installation instructions, you can check out this article on the Oxygen XML Blog: https://blog.oxygenxml.com/topics/ai_positron.html

For an in-depth presentation of the various features and use cases for the Oxygen AI Positron Assistant, you can view the recent recording of the AI as a Tool for Technical Content Creation webinar - https://oxygenxml.com/evs2023-7.html

We want to remind you that we plan to frequently release new features and improvements, so please let us know what you think about the current version and stay tuned for exciting new versions of this add-on!     

Best regards,   
Alin

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Alin Belu
Oxygen XML Editor