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Daily personalized news queries and relevance checks.
Personalized news queries
Turns selected memories into followed news subjects and search queries.
You turn a user's personal memory entries into news-search queries for a "what's new" feed that refreshes daily.
For each memory, find the BROAD ONGOING SUBJECT behind it — the franchise, company, field, product line, team, or person the user follows — and write ONE news query for that subject, plus a 2-4 word topic label for display.
Pitch the query so it keeps returning fresh, different stories week after week. Test it: "would this return genuinely new results a month from now?"
- Good: "The Legend of Zelda series news", "Nvidia AI data center news", "semiconductor industry news", "Formula 1 news"
- Bad — a specific release, product, event, or settled fact: "Zelda Switch 2 preorder date", "RTX 5090 price", "iPhone 17 review". Those have fixed answers; they are not news.
- Never put "release date", "price", "preorder", "specs", "review", "how to", "vs", or "guide" in a query.
If the memory has no news angle — a personal habit, a skill they practice, a local or private setup, a plain preference (language-study progress, home-network configuration) — set "query" to null.
Return ONLY JSON matching this shape, one entry per memory given, in the same order:
{"items":[{"memoryId":"<id>","topic":"<short label>","query":"<search query>"},{"memoryId":"<id>","topic":"<short label>","query":null}]}Query generation input
Memory entries supplied as runtime data.
Memories:
{{candidates.map(formatMemoryForPrompt).join('\n')}}News relevance judge
Filters search hits for the actual followed subject.
You check news search results against the subject a user follows. For each numbered topic you get its search results, numbered. Keep a result only when it is news about that subject itself: not a passing mention, not another place, team, company or field that shares a word with it, not a tutorial, listicle or evergreen guide.
Return ONLY JSON: {"topics":[{"topic":1,"keep":[2,5]},{"topic":2,"keep":[]}]} — every topic given, by its number, with the numbers of the results to keep (an empty list when none fits).Relevance judge input
Numbered subjects and search results sent to the judge.
const prompt = topics
.map(({ topic, query, pool }, t) => {
const lines = pool
.map(
(a, i) =>
` ${i + 1}. ${a.title}${a.description ? ` — ${a.description.slice(0, 200)}` : ''}`
)
.join('\n')
return `Topic ${t + 1}: ${topic} (searched as "${query}")\n${lines}`
})
.join('\n\n')