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Show HN: AI Agents that do research for you

4 points by asterai 3y ago

My take on an ai-agent powered research service. You configure the topics and the sources, then AI goes and does the research for you and distills the knowledge into bite size chunks.

quickthrower2 3y ago
Too cheap to be that specific I reckon. How many people will want to specifically research " tech & buy-side finance. " and when you get them you only get $120/year from them.
- asterai 3y ago
  that's good feedback... i'm working on offering chat & full api access experiences too, but for a lot more $ :) it works for any news sources, so in retrospect my hero isn't great. i'll update
  - quickthrower2 3y ago
    Great, good update! Another question - are those 5 things on the right the only things it can research, or just some of the things? I would hope something like this can do web requests and basic parsing of information on web pages, so I can send it off to research any topic and have a good chance. Is this the case? Or is it geared towards specific things?
    - asterai 3y ago
      those are just some examples of things i have used it for! when you login, you can fully configure the topics and the data sources that each agent has access to. so you're spot on that it does a pretty good job of navigating the web if you just give it google access. the other sources in addition to google that you can choose to let it access are: News API arXiv Hacker News Financial Markets News
      - quickthrower2 3y ago
        Worth making that clear. Even making the first or second agent say "Google" with a tagline "For any topic at all" would make it clear that this is an option. I signed up and found that the agent is schedulable. That is worth pointing out in the feature list as I can see that being pretty cool for some people. For my case I am more of a one off research. So being able to turn that feature off might be good. You may be in a space where each person like me has wildly different expectations though. Since "Research for you" is a very broad set of expectations. As someone who has played with things like autogpt, my expectations are low. No offence! It is just that getting AI to do this kind of stuff in a general case is pretty hard. At least this year lol! Next year it might be easy.
        asterai 3y ago
        really appreciate the feedback. yes, the primary delivery right now is daily e-mail digest, so i'll highlight that better on the site, but sounds like your use case is more ad-hoc which would work nicely with chat. definitely agree re: autogpt... getting it to actually do something was nearly impossible. i've found that by focusing on a more specific outcome, the agent approach works a lot better. with this it's been really cool to see how well it chases down internet rabbit holes to keep acquiring knowledge (well really just tokens) about a specific topic.
neontomo 3y ago
Can you show an example of it working?
- asterai 3y ago
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  - asterai 3y ago
    The formatting isn’t that bad in the email though :)

4 points by asterai 3y ago

My take on an ai-agent powered research service. You configure the topics and the sources, then AI goes and does the research for you and distills the knowledge into bite size chunks.

quickthrower2 3y ago

Too cheap to be that specific I reckon. How many people will want to specifically research " tech & buy-side finance. " and when you get them you only get $120/year from them.

asterai 3y ago
that's good feedback... i'm working on offering chat & full api access experiences too, but for a lot more $ :) it works for any news sources, so in retrospect my hero isn't great. i'll update
- quickthrower2 3y ago
  Great, good update! Another question - are those 5 things on the right the only things it can research, or just some of the things? I would hope something like this can do web requests and basic parsing of information on web pages, so I can send it off to research any topic and have a good chance. Is this the case? Or is it geared towards specific things?
  - asterai 3y ago
    those are just some examples of things i have used it for! when you login, you can fully configure the topics and the data sources that each agent has access to. so you're spot on that it does a pretty good job of navigating the web if you just give it google access. the other sources in addition to google that you can choose to let it access are: News API arXiv Hacker News Financial Markets News
    - quickthrower2 3y ago
      Worth making that clear. Even making the first or second agent say "Google" with a tagline "For any topic at all" would make it clear that this is an option. I signed up and found that the agent is schedulable. That is worth pointing out in the feature list as I can see that being pretty cool for some people. For my case I am more of a one off research. So being able to turn that feature off might be good. You may be in a space where each person like me has wildly different expectations though. Since "Research for you" is a very broad set of expectations. As someone who has played with things like autogpt, my expectations are low. No offence! It is just that getting AI to do this kind of stuff in a general case is pretty hard. At least this year lol! Next year it might be easy.
      - asterai 3y ago
        really appreciate the feedback. yes, the primary delivery right now is daily e-mail digest, so i'll highlight that better on the site, but sounds like your use case is more ad-hoc which would work nicely with chat. definitely agree re: autogpt... getting it to actually do something was nearly impossible. i've found that by focusing on a more specific outcome, the agent approach works a lot better. with this it's been really cool to see how well it chases down internet rabbit holes to keep acquiring knowledge (well really just tokens) about a specific topic.

neontomo 3y ago

Can you show an example of it working?

asterai 3y ago
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- asterai 3y ago
  The formatting isn’t that bad in the email though :)