Find Better 🐱 Cat Emojis with your text!

Takanori Suzuki

PyCon US 2026 / 2026 May 17

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Do you like Cats? 🐱

IMO, Many programmers like Cats
🧑‍💻 👩‍💻 ❤️ 🐱

A Council Member also likes Cats 😍

Thomas's Cat

In PyCon US 2025 ⚡️️ [1][2]

The Problem

LOTS of CAT EMOJIS!!(378 emojis)
Hard to find the right emoji

We have Python and AI

Solution: `nekochan-suggest`

Find the purr-fect cat emoji using AI
takanory/nekochan-suggest

`nekochan-suggest`:
How it works

`nekochan-suggest`: How it works

Captioning: Ollama + gemma4:e4b
Embedding: SentenceTransformers + multilingual-e5-base
Search: Vector Nearest Neighbor

Captioning: Ollama + gemma4:e4b

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Embedding: SentenceTransformers + multilingual-e5-base

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Search: Vector Nearest Neighbor

Demo

`nekochan-suggest` CLI

% nekochan-suggest "I love beer"
1. beer-nya  0.78
2. wine-nya  0.78
3. barista-nya  0.77

`nekochan-suggest` CLI

% nekochan-suggest build-anotations --help
usage: nekochan-suggest [-h] [--count N] [--json] [TEXT]

Suggest nekochan emoji filenames for a given text.

positional arguments:
  TEXT           Text to suggest emojis for. Reads from stdin if omitted.

options:
  -h, --help     show this help message and exit
  --count, -n N  Number of suggestions to return (1-10). Default: 3.
  --json         Output results in JSON format to stdout.