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How to Create an AI Assistant: A Dev's Guide
Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly prevalent, and many developers are integrating various LLM providers, such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and others into their Stream Chat applications across multiple SDKs. To help developers get started and accelerate their development with Stream Chat and AI, we've created a platform-specific, step-by-step guide. To follow along, we
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Harness the Power of Stream, Cronofy, and OpenAI for Team Collaboration
Geographically dispersed teams often have a hard time scheduling meetings that work for all participants. Human Resources departments also face this challenge when working with existing employees and job candidates alike. Employees have the benefit of a defined and somewhat uniform computing environment, job applicants are a whole different challenge. Each candidate uses whatever computer
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Exploring Reasoning LLMs and Their Real-World Applications
LLMs have excelled in writing, coding, and problem-solving tasks and prompts based on the data sets they were trained with. However, these models fall short when used to solve complex puzzles because they respond with the information they were trained with and lack the ability to self-correct. Recent LLMs, like OpenAI's o1 and o3 models,
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Build Your First Android and iOS Mobile App With Kotlin Multiplatform
Cross-platform development provides significant advantages, especially in mobile development, where Android and iOS operate on fundamentally different ecosystems. Developing native apps for each platform can be resource-intensive since it requires separate developers with expertise in different programming languages (Kotlin for Android and Swift/Objective-C for iOS). Managing two distinct codebases also increases development and maintenance costs
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How to Add DeepSeek LLM to Your Chat App Using AWS Bedrock
Deepseek is the latest LLM to hit the digital shelves. It boasts high-quality reasoning at a fraction of the cost of current state-of-the-art models, OpenAI o1 and o3-mini, and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking. DeepSeek R1 is open-source, which means two things. First, developers can examine the model's architecture, training process, and weights directly, enabling a
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Gesture Recognition Using Tensorflow.js
Hand gesture recognition has become increasingly important in computer vision and human-computer interaction. With the rise of video conferencing and virtual interactions, there's a growing need for intuitive ways to control our digital environments. In this tutorial, we'll explore building a hand gesture detection system using TensorFlow.js that can recognize various hand poses in real-time
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How to Add Real-Time Chat to Your AWS-Based Application
Chat has become a necessary feature in most products. Businesses want to integrate quick, real-time communication to connect with their users. It can be for HR team management, hiring, onboarding, or within existing teams – but chat is almost everywhere. If you are a developer or product manager looking to integrate a chat API into
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The Android Platform: The 2022 Android Developer Roadmap – Part 1
The Android ecosystem is in a constant state of growth: Every day, new libraries and materials are introduced that are designed to accelerate development speed and make our lives as developers easier. The 2022 Android Developer Roadmap is designed to give you a comprehensive understanding of the current Android ecosystem and provides suggested learning paths
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The Best Pre-Built Toolkits for AI Agents
Python and TypeScript-based AI agent frameworks, CrewAI, LangChain, Agno, and Vercel AI SDK allow developers to build AI applications with multiple agents to act as Computer-Using Agents, or Deep Research Agents to automate browser tasks like clicking, scrolling, ordering products on the web and performing complex and multi-step tasks. These multi-AI agents may be put
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Explore Astro Islands By Building a Chat App
JavaScript is the foundation of the modern web. Without it, you don’t have the rich interaction you expect from websites, like real-time updates, video, or chat. But JS brings a problem: bloat. Modern web apps often ship megabytes of JavaScript to the browser. This slows initial page load and hurts performance, especially for mobile devices.
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Build an AI Image Moderation System with AWS Rekognition
Adding image uploads to your live streams or chats increases engagement and interactivity. It allows your users to share visual content with the community, express themselves through photos and memes, and create more dynamic conversations in real time. But it also introduces the challenge of bad actors uploading inappropriate content and exposing your community to
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Designing Effective UI Components in Jetpack Compose
Since Google announced the Jetpack Compose 1.0 stable release, many companies have adopted Jetpack Compose to leverage its numerous advantages. With Compose's widespread adoption across the Android ecosystem, libraries and SDKs have also begun integrating support for Compose. Traditionally, in XML-based projects, UI components were delivered as custom views with customizable options via attributes. While
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