The HackerNews Podcaster is a JavaScript application that utilizes the power of OpenAI's language model to transform the top stories from Hacker News into a comprehensive podcast script! (and now with audio!)
As a listener of the Hacker News Recap by Wondercraft.ai, I became curious about the process of reproducing it using ChatGPT. By leveraging the advanced language processing capabilities of both OpenAI's GPT-3 and GPT-4 models, I created the HackerNews Podcaster. This application fetches the top stories from Hacker News, condenses them into concise summaries, and then assembles these summaries into a conversational and engaging podcast script.
Here's the flow of the application:
- Fetching the top stories from Hacker News.
- Utilizing GPT-3 to summarize each of the top stories.
- Generating a podcast script from these summaries using GPT-4.
- Displaying the script on the console.
With this project, you can quickly and automatically generate podcasts based on the latest technology news and trends. The generated podcast is output as an MP3 file.
This project requires ffmpeg to be installed on your local machine to process and generate the final MP3 audio file. Please ensure that ffmpeg is installed and accessible from your command line.
Make sure to have node and npm installed on your machine.
This project uses an environment variable for the OpenAI API Key. Make sure you have the OPENAI_API_KEY environment variable set in a .env file at the root of your project or in your system environment variables.
Ensure that the OpenAI key provided has required permissions and enough quota for making summarization and text generation requests to OpenAI API.