From e86585507202a5f6376adcf6286b0f5d7090ebef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Merlin <335354+Hesse@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2023 13:58:15 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md

A just a small edit on the getting started steps. I went ahead and blindly created an index in pinecone not knowing what I should set the dimensions to, so I arbitrarily put in a number, which later came back to bite me because it wasn't in line with OpenAI's 1536. I only found this out after it failed ingestion. If I had known to start with 1536 from the start, I could have avoided this.

I know you mention this as a debug step in the bottom, but placing it right at the start could avoid this issue in the first place.
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 - Visit [openai](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936850-where-do-i-find-my-secret-api-key) to retrieve API keys and insert into your `.env` file.
-- Visit [pinecone](https://pinecone.io/) to create and retrieve your API keys, and also retrieve your environment and index name from the dashboard.
+- Visit [pinecone](https://pinecone.io/) create an index (same as PINECONE_INDEX_NAME in the .env file), set the dimension to 1536, you will then be able to retrieve the environment once the index is created. 
 
 4. In the `config` folder, replace the `PINECONE_NAME_SPACE` with a `namespace` where you'd like to store your embeddings on Pinecone when you run `npm run ingest`. This namespace will later be used for queries and retrieval.