News prompting: a way to figure out the world through prompting
Imagine this: Climbers reach Everest’s summit while a plane passes overhead—all four people streaming their journeys live. Now layer in data from Wikipedia, YouTube, blogs, weather stations, and countless other sources. An AI system weaves these streams together, augmenting them with contextual information to create a comprehensive story: “Yet Another Hero Reaches the Top of the World.” The narrative writes itself, complete with statistics, background, and multiple perspectives.
Now imagine asking this news network anything—and getting exactly what you’re looking for, tailored to your interests. This is how news will be written, broadcast, and consumed in the very near future.
The idea isn’t even new. Years ago, a friend tried to build exactly this: a platform where users could request live streams from specific locations. “How crowded is Times Square right now?” “Is it raining in Zurich?” “Show me what’s happening at the LA protests.” The concept was sound, but the timing was wrong. Social media was still emerging, and building the critical mass of streamers needed to answer these questions proved impossible.
Today, that challenge has solved itself. Streaming is ubiquitous. Accurate real-time data combined with video, audio, and web sources makes these questions—and far more complex ones—entirely achievable. The infrastructure my friend dreamed of already exists.
Major platforms know this. TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Snapchat, WeChat—they’re undoubtedly working on it. Right now, you discover news by scrolling through endless feeds optimized for engagement and addiction. But what if you could transform any social network into your personal, curated news agency—one that actively creates YOUR news the way YOU want to discover it?
Imagine prompts like:
“How are my Belgian friends doing?”
“What’s happening with that specific friend?”
“Give me a 5-minute overview of the LA riots”
“Show me trends in medical science, focusing on CRISPR technology”
“Is Singapore worth visiting this time of year? What’s the weather like?”
Each answer comes curated with photos, videos, and contextual information, packaged as polished news segments with intros, charts, headlines, and narration—just like traditional broadcast news.
Meet RAGGY: your omni-RAG news anchor, delivering real-time updates and custom news segments based on whatever you want to know.