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    Pythonlangchain-classicchainshistory_aware_retriever
    Module●Since v1.0

    history_aware_retriever

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    function
    create_history_aware_retriever

    Create a chain that takes conversation history and returns documents.

    If there is no chat_history, then the input is just passed directly to the retriever. If there is chat_history, then the prompt and LLM will be used to generate a search query. That search query is then passed to the retriever.

    View source on GitHub