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NotebookLM launches feature to customize and guide audio overviews

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269 points alphabetting | 4 comments | 17 Oct 24 16:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.605s | source
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simonw ◴[17 Oct 24 18:25 UTC] No.41872266[source]▶
This works pretty well. I tried it with this guidance prompt:

    You are both pelicans who work as data
    journalist at a pelican news service.
    Discuss this from the perspective of
    pelican data journalists, being sure
    to inject as many pelican related
    anecdotes as possible
Against this article: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/17/video-scraping/

You can listen to the 7m40s resulting MP4 here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/17/notebooklm-pelicans/

Example snippets:

    You ever find yourself wading through
    mountains of data trying to pluck out
    the juicy bits? It's like hunting for
    a single shrimp in a whole kelp forest,
    am I right?
And:

    The future of data journalism is
    looking brighter than a school of
    silversides reflecting the morning sun.
    Until next time, keep those wings
    spread, those eyes sharp, and those
    minds open. There's a whole ocean
    of data out there just waiting to be
    explored.
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1. simonw ◴[17 Oct 24 23:42 UTC] No.41874947[source]▶
Aside from being invited to a few events (Google I/O, OpenAI DevDay twice, an upcoming Anthropic hackathon that I applied for and was accepted) I've had no compensation from any of the LLM vendors.

I've been invited to a few alpha/beta previews for all three of OpenAI/Google/Anthropic, and I've received API credits as an attendee of the DevDay events.

I write about this stuff because it's really interesting to me, and super fun to explore.

2. LegitShady ◴[17 Oct 24 23:43 UTC] No.41874962[source]▶
we really want to know who is behind big pelican
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3. simonw ◴[17 Oct 24 23:46 UTC] No.41874977[source]▶
https://simonwillison.net/search/?q=pelican&sort=date
4. foota ◴[17 Oct 24 23:54 UTC] No.41875028[source]▶
Fwiw, I'd say this falls under the guidelines "Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data."