I just shipped an update to our /gmfarcaster AI bot to give it the ability to search through metadata about our show.

Previously it only had access to search through transcripts.

If you asked it questions like:

"when was the last time Dan was on the show?"
"how many episodes of The Hub have been recorded?"
"when was the first GM Farcaster episode?

It faltered because it would search transcripts for those answers and unless we actually answered that question on-air, it wouldn't be able to give an answer.

I got it working locally, shall we give it a try to see how it behaves here? 🤞 🤞

Building an AI bot in public (updates cont.)

✅Rudimentary workflow routing is complete.
When you tag the bot and ask it a question, it now figures out whether it should look at transcripts or metadata to answer it. 
Example: "tell me about farcade" will search through transcripts and "tell me when chuckstock was on the show" will search through metadata.

Roadmap:
- Add a new workflow path to answer questions like "what were the highlights from the episode with chuckstock".  For this question, the bot needs to get the full transcript from a specific episode, instead of just searching through all transcripts or just metadata.
- Improve conversation ability.  Bot has rudimentary capability to have thread awareness but I learned there's a better way to handle this than prompt injection (https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat/create) 
- Create an additional database of all casts ever mentioned on our show 

What else would you like to see it do?

And I also want to start building a V2 frame