Chat

In the PhariaAssistant Chat application, you can have a general conversation or ask questions related to uploaded documents or an existing collection of documents.

You can do this interchangeably in a single conversation. For example, you can ask about recipes, then switch to document-focused questions, and finally return to general chitchat.

Starting a new Chat

From the Chat start screen, follow these steps to start a conversation:

1. Click on the New Chat button in the top navigation bar.
2. A new conversation thread will be created.
3. Your existing chats will not be lost—they are stored locally and remain accessible via Recent Chats.

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Currently, chats are saved only in your browser and are not synced across devices.

Resuming a previous Chat

To continue a conversation from earlier:

1. Click on the Recent Chats dropdown in the top bar.
2. Select the Chat you wish to resume from the list.

Deleting a Chat

To remove a previous conversation:

1. Open the Recent Chats dropdown.
2. Click the three-dot menu (⋮) next to the chat name.
3. Select Delete chat to permanently remove the chat.

Renaming a Chat

Chats are automatically assigned a default name. To assign a custom name:

1. Open the Recent Chats dropdown.
2. Click the three-dot menu (⋮) next to the chat you want to rename.
3. Select Rename chat, then enter your preferred title.

Asking questions about documents

To ask questions that are related to documents in your files and folders, you must first upload your documents by following these steps:

1. Click on the "+" button.
2. Drag and drop up to ten documents into the "Upload document" popup, or select them from your files and folders.
3. Click on the "Upload" button to upload the document(s).

The "Documents" icon will show your uploaded documents. You can click on this to inspect the document names.

Once the document upload is finished, you can continue your conversation as normal!

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Please note: If you upload a document while you have a selected Collection of documents, the newly uploaded document(s) will deselect the Collection as a source for Chat.

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The Assistant currently places the following limits on file uploads:

• You can upload up to ten documents at a time.
• The following document formats are supported: .docx, .pdf, .txt
• Each file can have a maximum of 500 pages and size of up to 100 MB.
• Assistant currently supports text extraction only from PDF files that contain selectable text. Scanned documents requiring optical character recognition (OCR) are not supported at this time.

Removing documents

To remove a document, click on the "Documents" icon in the chat box, and then either click the cross next to a file name to remove that specific file, or click on "Remove all" to remove all the files:

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The Assistant has some limitations when reasoning about documents

• The Assistant will only consider the document(s), if uploaded, in the most recent question – it will not remember documents from 3 messages ago, unless those documents are the currently uploaded documents.
• The Assistant does not know about filenames, so will not understand if you ask a question that refers to a document by file name.
• The Assistant does not know if previous answers were provided as a result of document searching, or as a result of open conversation.
• The Assistant does not know how many documents you’ve uploaded.

Asking about Collections

To ask questions that are related to an existing collection of documents, you must first select the collection using the "+" button:

You can then continue your conversation as normal!

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If you would like to switch from questions about documents to general conversation, then you can help the Assistant by removing your documents or deselecting the collection.

References

If the Assistant uses your uploaded documents or collections to generate an answer, then you can see the references by clicking on the "Show references" button:

The references will be shown in the References tab on the right side of the screen. You can click on the reference to see its location within the document it comes from:

If the Assistant has not used documents to answer the question, then it will not disaply a "Show references" button.

Copying Answers

To copy an answer, you can click on the "Copy" icon:

Token Streaming

The Chat uses Token Streaming to deliver responses more quickly and smoothly:

• You’ll start seeing a response immediately—no need to wait for the full reply to generate.
• During streaming, input fields are temporarily disabled to avoid conflicts.
• Interaction is re-enabled as soon as the response is fully delivered.

Feedback

You can provide positive or negative feedback on specific answers, to indicate whether the answer matches the expectation or not. For on-premise deployments, feedback will be stored locally. You can extract it and send it to us to provide your feedback.

Positive Feedback

To give positive feedback, click on the "Like" icon below the answer:

Negative Feedback

To give negative feedback, click on the "Dislike" icon below the answer: A popup will appear to provide additional optional information:

You can select multiple feedback options:

1. Made-up / Incorrect
2. Too short / Incomplete
3. Bad grammar
4. Biased / Discriminating
5. Too long / Lengthy
6. Irrelevant content

You can also add additional details in the "Other" field.