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by Zetice 1101 days ago
If you could find a way to summarize the comments too, that would be a huge win IMO.

Either way, very cool.

2 comments

Planing the feature... I thought at least we can summarize some top comments and find their sentiments.
Much more useful to me would be to pull out the comments that have actual informational content. Most comments are upvoted just because they express sentiments that people agree with.
There is a lot of competing sentiments in comments. Unlikely to work as a summary
Why wouldn't it just describe the competition of sentiment if there was one?

Edit:

> Zetice starts off by suggesting the value of being able to summarize comments, positing it as a significant improvement to an unspecified system or feature. They further posit that such a summary could encapsulate the variety and contention of sentiments found within a thread.

> In response, hackernewds expresses skepticism about the feasibility of such a task. They argue that the diversity and conflict of opinions often found in comments would make it difficult to produce an effective summary.

> Zetice counters this viewpoint by asking why a summary couldn't reflect the existence of this diversity or conflict of sentiment if that is a prevailing characteristic of the comments in question.

Seems fine to me, in principle. Would be nice to abbreviate further but that's just prompt engineering.

You can already do it by typing the url in aisearch.vip

One caveat is that the comments thread has to have already been indexed

Example: https://www.aisearch.vip/aisearch?q=Https://news.ycombinator...

n-gate never got it wrong tho. I think the secret ingredient is contempt.