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Hey folks!
We have two exciting updates to Merlin Chat. These are a product of a highly-sought user request and a very frustrating bug that our users had to face very frequently.
Upload context from Google Drive
You can now add docs, slides, sheets and images stored on your Google Drive, as context to Merlin.
How?
Click on the Attachment 📎 button on the chat bar, and select 'Add from Google Drive'. You'd need to link your Google account with Merlin for that matter. Unified decision making on Merlin Chat
Ever tried to write or generate a Craft, and then Merlin starts generating an image?
Or, tried to pull something from the web based on your document attachments, and ended up receiving a response that didn't satisfy your expectations?
Learning from the feedback, we have made improvements to our
decision making system
, that now decides what feature to trigger according to your prompt and context much more effectively.
You should expect Merlin to make better decisions on Chat and Projects now, on what feature to trigger when.
However, as with all updates in a fast-shipping product, this may still NOT be perfect.
Please feel free to put any feedback
here on Canny, if Merlin still acts rogue and generates something that you didn't want.Thanks folks! Hope this improves your experience with Merlin.
Ever faced an issue with Merlin not generating an adequate amount of text, or hallucinating on details after hitting a limit?
We've now enabled
Large Context models
on Merlin. 
How to use it?
Simply open the model selector on Merlin and choose the filter 'Large Context' from the top bar.Now you can use models like:
- Claude 3 Haiku
- Gemini 1.5 Flash
- GPT 4o Mini
... to chat with
HUGE
documents, websites, textual context and attachments.The limit on these models is
100K tokens
. That is the equivalent of attaching or generating- A full length novel, making it perfect for literary analysis.
- More than 150 iterations of code with 100 lines of code per iteration, so great for developers looking to iterate over large codebases in a single chat session.
- 250 pages of a Word document, ideal for reviewing or summarizing long research papers, reports, or books.
- 8,000 to 20,000 lines of source code, depending on formatting, allowing engineers to debug, review, or refactor extensive sections of code.
- Massive prompts that can be 100-200 times larger than a typical prompt, enabling more complex queries and interactions.
- 2 full-length Master's thesesor 200 to 250 pages of academic work.
We're soon rolling it out to Projects too.
Thank you for creating value out of Merlin everyday, and being a part of this journey! <3
Hey there, Merlin users!
We're excited to introduce
Merlin Projects
in Beta, a brand-new way to organize your information and work smarter. Projects are available to use for all signed-in users on Merlin. You can enable Projects from 'Labs' on the sidebar.
With Projects, you can collect information from multiple sources to create knowledge bases, and use AI to have ongoing, context-aware conversations with them.
As of now, we support adding context through docs (PDFs, PPTs, CSVs, XLSs, DOCs, etc), images, text and weblinks.
We're soon expanding support for Github repos, pre-existing Merlin chats and Google Drive links.
What's in it?
- Specify custom instructions:Add system prompt-like instructions to your Project for it to understand what its purpose is. Specify instructions like, for example: 'Cite sources always in APA format', 'Format it like a research paper', etc.
- Have multiple chats organised in projects:You can have separate, labelled chat threads in the same Project. You can use it to organise your project into sub-tasks.
- Use any model, web-access or upload temporary files as attachments too:Projects are flexible to the capabilities of the Merlin workspace.
Applications:
- Creating educational assistants for academic courses:Upload lecture notes, textbooks and assignments as knowledge.
- Developing brand voice applications for content creation:Upload social media feeds as reference, scraped post CSVs and write detailed instructions on style and tone.
- Building documentation helpers for technical projects:Upload documentation/help guides as knowledge.
- Assisting with comprehensive research projects like market research and capstone projects:Upload all your information sources as knowledge and add custom instructions to maintain formatting.
FAQs:
Q: How can I access Merlin Projects?
A: To access Merlin Projects:
- Navigate to the Labs section in the Merlin sidebar
- Activate the "Projects" feature
- Locate the new "Projects" icon in your sidebar
- Select it to begin creating and managing your projects
Q: Are there limitations on the number of projects a user can create?
A. No. As long as your query limits allow for it, you can create as many Projects as you want. Want more queries?
Q: Is my personal data safe, when I add it as knowledge?
A. Your uploaded data stays private, and is not sent to the LLM providers. Only necessary, anonymised (i.e. with no signs of your identity) context is shared with LLM providers, otherwise LLMs can't answer the query without any context. Our providers are bound by our Data Processing Agreement. We never use your data for training. For details, see our full privacy policy.
Thanks for being a part of the Merlin family! We hope you enjoy using Projects, and make the most of it.
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We're bringing Claude Artifacts to Merlin. We're also bringing interactive graphs to Merlin. We're ALSO bringing diagrams to Merlin. We call it Merlin Crafts.
It is live for all signed-in Merlin users
, as you read this. Crafts is an experimental
feature, therefore you have to enable it, by going to Labs
on the sidebar and turning on Crafts.
It brings support for:
- Claude Artifact-like code-generation:Generate code, iterate on it, create app snippets, HTML pages, SVG animations
- Diagrams:Flowcharts, sequence diagrams, class diagrams, state diagrams, relationship diagrams, user journeys, gantt charts, pie charts, quadrant charts, Git-graph diagrams, mindmaps, timelines (that's a mouthful)
- Interactive bar graphs, pie chartsthat show additional context when hovered upon (like ChatGPT)
Quick beta note:
- Live Search doesn't work with Crafts YET, so you'd have to wait for a while. You can't use search data to create infographics as of now. Doing that requires first doing a Merlin Live Search query to extract the data from Internet and then prompt to create a diagram, but just for now :').
- Do try to prompt well.Mention you want your diagram "in a Craft", or "in React and ShadCN", or, "in Mermaid". Filthy compromise, yes, but we're fixing it!
Please do report good feedback
in 'Bug Report' on this website when you see Crafts misbehaving, by duly attaching the prompt, model and generated code.Thank you for being the early adopters of this amazing tool!