Add example questions to AI chat

[InAnYan]

Is your suggestion for improvement related to a problem? Please describe.

JabRef features an AI chat, though it's a bit basic. Many AI services provide a feature called "example questions". This is a fixed set of questions that a user can ask at the beginning of chat.

Describe the solution you'd like

Add 3 example questions in the AI chat above the text field:

• What is the goal of the paper?
• Which methods were used in the research?
• What are the key findings?

Add an HBox with those questions just above the chat prompt (https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/blob/4dea5fae711f9dd61c94f6a170b475b9e0633e22/src/main/java/org/jabref/gui/ai/components/aichat/AiChatComponent.fxml#L25-L24). Make them hyperlinks, and on clicking, it should send a message to AI chat (org.jabref.gui.ai.components.aichat.AiChatComponent#onSendMessage).

Additional context

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[koppor]

Hint in localization: https://devdocs.jabref.org/code-howtos/localization.html

[ThiloteE]

Bonus points for adding a button to let the LLM come up with three follow up questions automatically, such as is possible with GPT4All... but yes, a few hard-coded questions would be nice.

[kaushikaW]

hi I would like to work on this issue.

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[techaakritisha]

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