[P][R] Kani: A Lightweight Highly Hackable Open-Source Framework for Building Chat Applications with Tool Usage (e.g. Plugins)

Hey all, we just released our new project/paper and we thought you all might find it useful!

Our project (Kani) is a super lightweight and hackable alternative to frameworks like LangChain or simpleAIchat meant to help developers hook in callable functions or tools to chat models easily. With Kani, devs can write functions in pure python and just add one line (the `@ai_function()` decorator) to turn any function into an AI-callable function!

Kani works with any model and has built-in …

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