[P] Creating a coding assistant with StarCoder

Hi folks, it’s Lewis here from the research team at Hugging Face 👋.

We’ve been tinkering with [BigCode’s StarCoder model for code generation](https://huggingface.co/bigcode/starcoder) the last few days and wondered whether it could be turned into a coding assistant with a little bit of fine-tuning.

Somewhat surprisingly, the answer is yes! We fine-tuned StarCoder on two high-quality datasets that have been created by the community:

- [OpenAssistant’s dataset](https://huggingface.co/datasets/OpenAssistant/oasst1) of 40k+ conversations, spanning a diverse range of topics from philosophy to poetry. …

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