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Chats with Perplexity show footnote numbers but no actual references.

I used BYOK to add Perplexity to Capacities' AI features. One of the things I like about the regular Perplexity interface is that it always shows references for the material it summarizes. However, when I direct queries to Perplexity through Capacities, I see numbers for the references, but no references specifically. For example:

Are there any reports of the ixbge driver failing to enable both ports on a dual port 10g card?

Yes, there are multiple reports of the ixgbe driver failing to enable both ports on dual-port 10G Intel cards, such as the X540-AT2 and similar models.

On a Supermicro X9DRW-CTF31 motherboard with dual onboard X540-AT2 ports running Ubuntu 22.04, one port appears disabled on boot despite both being detected by lspci; unloading (rmmod ixgbe) and reloading (modprobe ixgbe) the driver enables both ports and resolves bonding issues.[1]

So you see the [1] but no associated link to tell you what Perplexity is referencing.

I'm attaching a screenshot of the Perplexity interface. The footnote numbers are clickable links there, unlike the results via Capacities.

Interestingly enough I got a completely different response from the Perplexity interface than I did in Capacities. That's probably due in part to the customization prompts that Perplexity uses to tune its responses to each user.

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Ilma Fiddien·5 months ago

Coming from Obsidian, I used Markdown footnote syntax a lot to put references and side thoughts or comments. Though in Capacities I can practically make the footnote as a separate note on it's own and mention it in the main text to get the same pop-up experience. But I think in most cases, separate note is an overkill.