Enhance README and news.py with personalized configuration examples

Author: jasonacox

agents/README.md

@@ -4,21 +4,38 @@ Agents use LLMs to take action or provide curated reports.
 
 ## News Bot
 
-The [news.py](news.py) script will use an OpenAI API based LLM to process raw weather payloads, stock prices and top news items into a curated news report. This can be set up as a scheduled cron job to send you the news.
+The [news.py](news.py) script will use an OpenAI API based LLM to process raw weather payloads, stock prices and top news items into a curated news report. This can be set up as a scheduled cron job to send a personalized news update (see [news-cron.sh](news-cron.sh)).
 
 ```bash
-# Update environmental variables for your use case
-ALPHA_KEY=ABC123 OPENAI_API_BASE=http://localhost:8000/v1 COMPANY=MyCompany python3 news.py  
+echo "Gathering the news for you..."
+
+# Update these configurations
+export ABOUT_ME="I'm a 35 year old woman who lives in Los Angeles. I work at Acme in technology and AI. I have 2 boys."
+export COMPANY="MyCompany"
+export ALPHA_KEY="alpha-key" # Get Alpha Advantage API Key for Stock Prices - https://www.alphavantage.co/
+export OPENAI_API_BASE="http://localhost:4000/v1"
+export OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-3-laws-safe"
+export LLM_MODEL="llama"
+export CITY="Los Angeles"
+export CITY_WEEKEND="Ventura"
+export EMAIL_FORMAT=true
+
+echo ""
+python3 ./news.py
 ```
 
 ## Movie Bot
 
 The [movie.py](movie.py) script uses an LLM to make a movie suggestion. It records previous recommendations to prevent repeating suggestions. Outputs a single line recommendation and writes a full detailed recommendation to MESSAGE_FILE. This can be set up as a scheduled cron job to send you a text or email you a recommendation.
 
 ```bash
+echo "Thinking about a movie recommendation for you..."
+
+# Update these configurations
 export OPENAI_API_BASE="http://localhost:4000/v1"
 export OPENAI_API_KEY="sk-3-laws-safe"
 export LLM_MODEL="llama"
+export ABOUT_ME="We love movies! Action, adventure, sci-fi and feel good movies are our favorites."
 export DATABASE="./movie.db"
 export MESSAGE_FILE="./message.txt"
 

agents/news.py

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ def error(text):
 TEMPERATURE = float(os.environ.get("TEMPERATURE", 0.0))                     # LLM temperature
 USE_SYSTEM = os.environ.get("USE_SYSTEM", "false").lower() == "true"        # Use system in chat prompt if True
 RESULTS = int(os.environ.get("RESULTS", 10))                                # Number of results to return from Weaviate
-ALPHA_KEY = os.environ.get("ALPHA_KEY", "alpha-key")                        # Alpha Vantage API Key
+ALPHA_KEY = os.environ.get("ALPHA_KEY", "alpha-key")                        # Alpha Vantage API Key - https://www.alphavantage.co
 COMPANY = os.environ.get("COMPANY", "Google")                               # Company to use for stock news
 CITY = os.environ.get("CITY", "Los Angeles")                                # City to use for weather news
 CITY_WEEKEND = os.environ.get("CITY_WEEKEND", "Ventura")                    # City to use for weather news on weekends