Supporting asyncio in langchain primitives allows for users to run them
concurrently and creates more seamless integration with
asyncio-supported frameworks (FastAPI, etc.)
Summary of changes:
**LLM**
* Add `agenerate` and `_agenerate`
* Implement in OpenAI by leveraging `client.Completions.acreate`
**Chain**
* Add `arun`, `acall`, `_acall`
* Implement them in `LLMChain` and `LLMMathChain` for now
**Agent**
* Refactor and leverage async chain and llm methods
* Add ability for `Tools` to contain async coroutine
* Implement async SerpaPI `arun`
Create demo notebook.
Open questions:
* Should all the async stuff go in separate classes? I've seen both
patterns (keeping the same class and having async and sync methods vs.
having class separation)
PR to fix outdated environment details in the docs, see issue #897
I added code comments as pointers to where users go to get API keys, and
where they can find the relevant environment variable.
Was passing prompt in directly as string and getting nonsense outputs.
Had to inspect source code to realize that first arg should be a list.
Could be nice if there was an explicit error or warning, seems like this
could be a common mistake.
The re.DOTALL flag in Python's re (regular expression) module makes the
. (dot) metacharacter match newline characters as well as any other
character.
Without re.DOTALL, the . metacharacter only matches any character except
for a newline character. With re.DOTALL, the . metacharacter matches any
character, including newline characters.
This does not involve a separator, and will naively chunk input text at
the appropriate boundaries in token space.
This is helpful if we have strict token length limits that we need to
strictly follow the specified chunk size, and we can't use aggressive
separators like spaces to guarantee the absence of long strings.
CharacterTextSplitter will let these strings through without splitting
them, which could cause overflow errors downstream.
Splitting at arbitrary token boundaries is not ideal but is hopefully
mitigated by having a decent overlap quantity. Also this results in
chunks which has exact number of tokens desired, instead of sometimes
overcounting if we concatenate shorter strings.
Potentially also helps with #528.
