James McNally (May 19 2025 at 06:55): James McNally (May 19 2025 at 06:55):This is quite specific but feel like this is the crowd for it!
I've been using perplexity for a while and really like it but would prefer kagi in anticipation of any enshittification.
Has anyone managed to make the kagi assistant more similar to perplexity?
Specifically what I liked was not drawing from the models knowledge but always from sources so I can go deeper and/or check the answers. I'm hoping a bit of prompt engineering should get me there! But quite new to it
Ron Waldon-Howe (May 19 2025 at 06:59):you're assuming that kagi doesn't enshittify :)
James McNally (May 19 2025 at 07:05):Also true!
Ron Waldon-Howe (May 19 2025 at 07:11):i'm guessing, these days, you'd want a model to be run with support for MCP so you can hook it up to a "search results" MCP or even a "read this web page" MCP
https://mcp.so/
does kagi support this?
Sukhdeep Brar (May 20 2025 at 01:50):https://github.com/kagisearch/kagimcp
Looks like it's in closed beta
James Thurley (May 20 2025 at 13:15):I definitely use Kagi less since I started using Perplexity, enough to drop down to the Starter plan.
It's a shame that their AI product isn't as good as using Perplexity on a free plan. Feels like a missed opportunity for them.
Brett Cannon (May 20 2025 at 21:06):Maybe I'm misreading https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/technical-faq/how-does-perplexity-follow-robots-txt , but it seems like Perplexity still isn't respecting robots.txt entirely.
Ron Waldon-Howe (May 20 2025 at 23:39):Yeah, Perplexity started out less ethical than even OpenAI, so it doesn't surprise me that they're still so problematic
James McNally (May 21 2025 at 11:07):Yeah this is my concern with them and why I want to make kagi work. They don't seem like they are in it for the good vibes!
I've tried adding a prompt to encourage references which works some of the time! Need to keep tweaking I think.
Ron Waldon-Howe (May 22 2025 at 00:25):well ... i'm not sure kagi passes the vibe check either ( https://d-shoot.net/kagi.html ) but we all have different values and priorities and tolerances :shrug:
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