Starting the NYT news chatbot
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 15/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- markdown
- Domain
- ai
Research direction
The issue narrates creating the “NYT headlines” bot and loading mostRecentHeadlines.md into chatthing.ai, with links to the source feed and resulting chat. Start by reviewing those linked resources; the stated next step is to determine how the bot can read the file periodically, while improved formatting and timestamps are noted preferences.
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Description
Let's learn how to start and update a chatthing.ai bot.
Note I am not reporting any problems in this, it all worked. I'm just "narrating my work."
- I created a new bot called NYT headlines.
- Here's a screen shot.
- I'm going to upload files using this interface.
- To start the experiment, I'm going to create a Markdown-ized RSS feed from the NYT.
- Let's start with their Most Recent Headlines feed.
- Here's the Markdown-ized version of that feed.
- Here's the resulting file that we'll give to chatthing to ingest.
- I loaded the file it created into the chatthing bot, and then asked a question: "What's new from the NYT?"
- This is what I got back...
- In other words -- it worked. The formatting sucks, I would have preferred a bulleted list, and it left out the time stamps. But I got some news. Now to figure out how to get it to read this file periodically.
- Dominant language
- HTML
- Stars
- 134
- Forks
- 10
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