so i’m building senpai, an ai that actually talks like my friend, not some normal chatbot. so first thing first, I need data to learn from so here’s wht I did:

exported a whole year of whatsapp chats with my friend (yes i read through all of it, and got his consent). wrote a python script on kaggle to clean it up and formatting it into proper training pairs

not glamorous but this is like 30% of the actual work tbh, garbage data can cause strange and irrelevant replies
Then I trained this on Kaggle with Llama model with LoRA adaptation
Right now the replies aren’t so great, I’ll do some fine tuning later