Enable and try Databricks Assistant
Databricks Assistant is a context-aware AI assistant that helps you with Databricks notebooks, SQL editor, jobs, AI/BI dashboards, file editor, and more. Databricks Assistant assists you with data and code when you ask for help using a conversational interface.
Databricks Assistant defaults to using Databricks-hosted AI models if you disable partner-powered features. To learn more about this, see Features governed by the Partner-powered AI assistive features setting.
To learn how Assistant helps with code, see Get coding help from Databricks Assistant.
For an account: Disable or enable partner-powered AI features
If you can't enable Databricks Assistant or other partner-powered AI features using the following instructions, you might need to disable Enforce data processing within workspace Geography for AI features. See Enable cross-Geo processing.
partner-powered AI features including Databricks Assistant are enabled by default. However, account admins can disable partner-powered AI features for all workspaces within an account. Account admins can also enforce enabling partner-powered AI features for the entire account.
The act of enabling or disabling partner-powered Databricks Assistant features for your account is captured as an account event in your audit logs, see Account events.
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As an account admin, log in to the account console.
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Click Settings.
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Click the Feature enablement tab.
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For the Enable partner-powered AI features option, select Off or On.
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Prevent workspace overrides with the Enforce setting:
If you select Off for the Enable partner-powered AI assistive features option, Databricks-hosted models continue to power AI features.
To learn about the services used for partner-powered AI features including Assistant, see Features governed by the Partner-powered AI assistive features setting.
For a workspace: Disable or enable partner-powered AI features
If your account admin enables partner-powered AI features including Databricks Assistant, it is enabled by default in workspaces. Unless the account admin chose to enforce the setting, workspace admins can disable it for their workspaces.
To disable partner-powered AI features in a workspace:
- Click your username in the top bar of the Databricks workspace > Settings.
- In the left pane under Workspace admin, click the Advanced tab.
- To disable partner-powered AI features, click the toggle Off for Partner-powered AI assistive features.
If you select Off for the Enable partner-powered AI assistive features option, Databricks-hosted models continue to power AI features.
Tour of the Assistant pane
This section describes the default experience of the Assistant pane.
To open the Assistant pane, click 
on the upper-right corner of the page.
Type questions in the text box at the bottom of the Assistant pane and press Enter or click 
at the right of the text box. Assistant displays its answer. The following screenshot shows actions you can take after Assistant has generated code in the Assistant pane.
You can run the same query again to generate another answer. To do so, hover your cursor over the answer and click 
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To close the pane, click the icon again or click 
in the upper-right corner of the cell. You can expand the pane to full width by clicking 
; click 
to return the pane to default width.
The Assistant pane keeps track of your conversations even if you close the pane or notebook. To clear previous conversations, click 
at the upper-right of the Assistant pane.
Threads and prompt history
Conversation threads persist across the different contexts where Databricks Assistant is available. From the Assistant pane, you can create new conversation threads, view the question and prompt history, and manage your Databricks Assistant experience.
Databricks Assistant titles the threads based on the context of your prompts, so you can navigate the history of your Assistant conversation. The following example is from a question about a notebook.
Get follow-up suggestions or answers from documentation
Databricks Assistant gives you follow-up suggestions or citations from documentation to answer questions. Type your question or prompt in the prompt box.
- Follow-up suggestions include variations on the query.
- Citations are numbered footnote links following an Assistant answer.
Control the location of Databricks Assistant
The docking feature allows you to control where Databricks Assistant appears. Keep the pane on the right side of the page or dock it anywhere along the bottom. To minimize or expand Databricks Assistant, click the top of the Assistant pane.
Get help with code
Get help with code from Databricks Assistant directly in your notebooks. The Assistant offers:
- AI-based autocomplete.
- Data filtering with natural language prompts.
- Code debugging with Diagnose Error.
- Quick Fix, which presents automatic recommendations for fixing code errors that you can Accept and run.
- Serverless code execution.
See Get coding help from Databricks Assistant.