Frequently Asked Questions

What is Ansari?

Ansari is an AI assistant to help increase understanding of the Islamic faith and help Muslims practise their faith more effectively.

Who wrote Ansari?

Waleed Kadous (site, LinkedIn) is the primary author of Ansari. EndeavorPal has been helping with the web frontend and mobile applications.

Where do I send my thoughts, errors, feedback about Ansari?

Please send to [email protected]. It is checked daily.

Is there a particular Large Language Model Ansari uses?

Ansari 2.0 and below use GPT-4-Turbo from OpenAI. We have also tried GPT-3.5-Turbo, but the accuracy really suffers. In one test, GPT-4-Turbo running Ansari got 97% accuracy; GPT-3.5-Turbo with identical prompts, tools etc, only got 77% accuracy.

Ansari 3.0 use Claude 3.7 Sonnet from Anthropic. Sonnet was selected because if its better results over GPT-4.0 and in particular its ability to make citations and references.

How is it different to GPT-4-Turbo or Sonnet, then?

It differs in the following ways:

• Carefully crafted system prompts to ensure information is presented from an Islamic perspective.
• Tools specifically to retrieve Qur'an and Sunnah for retrieval augmented generation. This helps significantly reduce hallucination.
• Has been validated on multiple Islamic data sets.
• Is constrained to focus and answer questions primarily on topics related to Islam.

Is Ansari Open Source?

Yes it is. Here is the source code for the backend and the frontend.

Does Ansari cost money?

Users do not have to pay anything to use Ansari. However, LLMs are very expensive to use (especially high end ones like GPT-4-Turbo and Claude Sonnet). So each request and response costs about 5c or so.