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+Two new helpers have been added that make it easier to migrate to considering thrown errors to be of the type `unknown` in TypeScript. The helpers are `assertError` and `isError`, and can be called to make sure that an unknown value conforms to the shape of an `ErrorLike` object. The `assertError` function is a type-guard that throws in the case of a mismatch, while `isError` returns false.