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simonw ◴[] 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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instagraham ◴[] No.41877074[source]
What did you mean by pelicans? Googled but didn't understand, is it a term for having a type of data expertise?
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1. sgerenser ◴[] No.41877148[source]
Pretty sure they just meant one of these: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelican
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2. abdusco ◴[] No.41877305[source]
Simon likes to test LLMs' creativity by asking them questions about pelicans
3. ozgung ◴[] No.41877890[source]
For someone from Turkey, "Pelican Journalists" indeed has a political meaning.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelikan_(organization)

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4. simonw ◴[] No.41882379[source]
No way! That's fascinating, thanks.
5. simonw ◴[] No.41882383[source]
I did! See also: https://simonwillison.net/search/?q=pelican