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by HenryNdubuaku·6d ago·view on hn ↗
Try the following tool description: "Calculate the sum of two numbers. Use for any arithmetic or math question." instead of "Add two numbers." Let me know how it goes, thanks!
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It does better with clearer tool description, but we are taking note of these complaints for future improvements.
works better that way, thanks :)
Thanks, we shall improve this for the next release.
but still struggle when changing the quesion:

  import needle

  @needle.tool
  def add(a: int, b: int):
      "Calculate the sum of two numbers. Use for any arithmetic or math question."
      return a + b

  agent = needle.Needle(tools=[add])
  print(agent.run("what is 5 + 7?")["reasoning"])

>> No calculator or math tool available. Cannot compute numbers.
Ah, another failure point on our end! So a simple "5 + 7" and "add 5 and 7" works. But to handle ambiguity, the python package ships pipelines to synthesize augmentations and fine-tune on your samples for robustness. Just run "needle playground" and use the UI. Apologies.