Harrison/chat history formatter1 (#1538)

Co-authored-by: Youssef A. Abukwaik <yousseb@users.noreply.github.com>

docs/modules/indexes/chain_examples/chat_vector_db.ipynb

@@ -268,48 +268,44 @@
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "4f49beab",
+   "metadata": {},
    "source": [
     "## Chat Vector DB with `search_distance`\n",
     "If you are using a vector store that supports filtering by search distance, you can add a threshold value parameter."
-   ],
-   "metadata": {
-    "collapsed": false
-   }
+   ]
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "5ed8d612",
+   "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
     "vectordbkwargs = {\"search_distance\": 0.9}"
-   ],
-   "metadata": {
-    "collapsed": false
-   }
+   ]
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
    "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "6a7b3459",
+   "metadata": {},
    "outputs": [],
    "source": [
     "qa = ChatVectorDBChain.from_llm(OpenAI(temperature=0), vectorstore, return_source_documents=True)\n",
     "chat_history = []\n",
     "query = \"What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson\"\n",
     "result = qa({\"question\": query, \"chat_history\": chat_history, \"vectordbkwargs\": vectordbkwargs})"
-   ],
-   "metadata": {
-    "collapsed": false
-   }
+   ]
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "99b96dae",
+   "metadata": {},
    "source": [
     "## Chat Vector DB with `map_reduce`\n",
     "We can also use different types of combine document chains with the Chat Vector DB chain."
-   ],
-   "metadata": {
-    "collapsed": false
-   }
+   ]
   },
   {
    "cell_type": "code",
@@ -524,6 +520,71 @@
     "query = \"Did he mention who she suceeded\"\n",
     "result = qa({\"question\": query, \"chat_history\": chat_history})\n"
    ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "markdown",
+   "id": "f793d56b",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "source": [
+    "## get_chat_history Function\n",
+    "You can also specify a `get_chat_history` function, which can be used to format the chat_history string."
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 8,
+   "id": "a7ba9d8c",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "def get_chat_history(inputs) -> str:\n",
+    "    res = []\n",
+    "    for human, ai in inputs:\n",
+    "        res.append(f\"Human:{human}\\nAI:{ai}\")\n",
+    "    return \"\\n\".join(res)\n",
+    "qa = ChatVectorDBChain.from_llm(OpenAI(temperature=0), vectorstore, get_chat_history=get_chat_history)"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 9,
+   "id": "a3e33c0d",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": [
+    "chat_history = []\n",
+    "query = \"What did the president say about Ketanji Brown Jackson\"\n",
+    "result = qa({\"question\": query, \"chat_history\": chat_history})"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": 11,
+   "id": "936dc62f",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [
+    {
+     "data": {
+      "text/plain": [
+       "\" The president said that Ketanji Brown Jackson is one of the nation's top legal minds, a former top litigator in private practice, a former federal public defender, and from a family of public school educators and police officers. He also said that she is a consensus builder and has received a broad range of support from the Fraternal Order of Police to former judges appointed by Democrats and Republicans.\""
+      ]
+     },
+     "execution_count": 11,
+     "metadata": {},
+     "output_type": "execute_result"
+    }
+   ],
+   "source": [
+    "result['answer']"
+   ]
+  },
+  {
+   "cell_type": "code",
+   "execution_count": null,
+   "id": "b8c26901",
+   "metadata": {},
+   "outputs": [],
+   "source": []
   }
  ],
  "metadata": {