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Re: Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news

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Post by guizzy »

Karrot_Kream wrote: post #18
guizzy wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't have it set up to publish a website, but maybe you'll be interested in this tool I made for myself. https://github.com/GuizzyQC/FeedSummarizer It will take an RSS feed, send the content of x number of articles to an OpenAI-compatible API to summarize, then send me an email with all of those summaries. I have it set to run every day so I wake up to a summary of my feeds (and of Hacker News). I figure it would…

Have you had any trouble with BeautifulSoup? I've thought about doing something similar but wanted something more robust with scraping. I've thought about using Puppeteer.

It works pretty well. This morning running on what were the top 20 articles on Hacker News, it failed to extract data for one article and that was only because the link was a PDF. On an average day I get one or two failure per 20 articles, for various reasons (click-throughs, information in pictures, PDF links) and I haven't tried very hard to improve it.

Re: Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news

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Post by gordondavidf »

BizarroLand wrote: post #17

Looks cool, I like it, but given AIs propensity to outright lie to us (hallucinate), what steps are being taken to verify the facts of the summaries it is giving?

@guizzy has it right. Much more unlikely to hallucinate because all of the information it needs is submitted in the API request -- its actually explicitly asked to not come up with anything new.

Of course though this is a concern that needs to be closely watched as AI summaries become more common in the world.

Re: Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news

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Post by jamager »

I like this!

I guess the obvious missing features would be:

- Tailored to personal preferences in terms of language/country, topic, sentiment (eg. positive things happening in the world) - Summary with the top X news of the day (in 1 line per entry) - Links to source articles

And bonus points: detect and show fake news circulating on the internet

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Post by gordondavidf »

jamager wrote: post #23

I like this! I guess the obvious missing features would be: - Tailored to personal preferences in terms of language/country, topic, sentiment (eg. positive things happening in the world) - Summary with the top X news of the day (in 1 line per entry) - Links to source articles And bonus points: detect and show fake news circulating on the internet

Thanks! Topic filtering definitely on the way. Sentiment is a really cool idea -- especially if you want to filter by it. Will have to think about that.

My thoughts on language/country: Will stay away from this from now and focus just on English US. I'm a one man shop and this is fully a side project. With the low concern of misreporting something, I want to make sure I understand everything on the site.

Would be required in the long term vision though for sure.

Thanks for checking it out and commenting!

Re: Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news

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Post by gordondavidf »

hsshah wrote: post #24

Nice implementation. I like it. In addition to source/topic customization that others have already mentioned; it would be nice to be able to ask follow up questions on a news story that one would like to know more.

Thanks for checking it out and commenting!

THAT would be really cool. Especially with voice while its reading the articles to you.

Re: Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news

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Post by joshka »

Image is too large, often useless for context and generally wasted space. Too much text per article means generally one screen page per article (consider just showing one line and having an expand button that shows the extra context). compare nytimes.com for example - you can see 9 stories on the front page even with two large images. No idea what the tick means

I'd aim for at least 4-6 articles showing in screen at once.

Re: Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news

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Post by joshka »

An interesting feature to try on this might be to have several sentiment modes to try out. I.e. what if you hade a neutral perspective, a conservative one and a progressive one available as easily as it is to click a dark/light mode button? What if you had some more custom modes that are targeted at providing news that fits the user's perspective / interest more and that would shape the summaries to align with the perspective "I am a software developer that enjoys news about technological innovation and related industry news"

Re: Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news

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Post by gordondavidf »

joshka wrote: post #27

Image is too large, often useless for context and generally wasted space. Too much text per article means generally one screen page per article (consider just showing one line and having an expand button that shows the extra context). compare nytimes.com for example - you can see 9 stories on the front page even with two large images. No idea what the tick means I'd aim for at least 4-6 articles showing in screen at…

Hey Joshka! Thanks for checking it out and commenting. I like the one article per page format over a click -- easy to scroll along and see what I want without much interaction. I get why someone might want different though or prefer no images. V1 of the site was full black and white newspaper style with many columns -- closer to what you're saying.

Re: Show HN: Attabit – AI powered news

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Post by gordondavidf »

joshka wrote: post #28

An interesting feature to try on this might be to have several sentiment modes to try out. I.e. what if you hade a neutral perspective, a conservative one and a progressive one available as easily as it is to click a dark/light mode button? What if you had some more custom modes that are targeted at providing news that fits the user's perspective / interest more and that would shape the summaries to align with the pe…

10 years from now I definitely think we'll have personal AI's in our pocket updating us on what's going on. They will cater to our preferences and (i hope) heavily look into stories while telling us about them.

The best future is where everyone gets a super powered reporter in their pocket.

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