Emoji Search – semantic emoji picker using sentence-transformers

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Show HN: Emoji Search — semantic emoji picker with instant similarity search Demo: https://huggingface.co/spaces/TanishkB/emojisearch Repo: https://github.com/tanishkbansode/emoji-search Blog: https://www.sisymaru.xyz/blog/emojisearch I built a tiny emoji picker that returns the best-fit emojis for a phrase (e.g. "sad but hopeful","sad flower" "mickey"). It uses sentence-transformers embeddings and faiss as a lightweight vector database. Built with: sentence-transformers +faiss

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