{"id":13592,"date":"2025-05-28T12:22:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T10:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/?p=13592"},"modified":"2025-05-28T12:22:06","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T10:22:06","slug":"playing-with-ai-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.main-vision.com\/richard\/blog\/playing-with-ai-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing with AI Agents"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Yesterday evening I was at a talk about AI. The person had written an AI agent that scrapes news sources for information, and reads reports, and then provides a summary of this information as a report.<\/p>\n

We often think of AI as a chat where we ask a question, and then get an answer. This does work well, when you do something once, or twice. If you do something a dozen times per day then agents become interesting.<\/p>\n

Both Le Chat by Mistral and Gemini by Google have agents that are focused on specific roles. These include a data analyst, a personal tutor, a universal summariser and a writing assistant for Le Chat. Gemini has something similar.<\/p>\n

The idea is that, with an AI agent, you load a set of presets into the LLM to get it to behave a specific way, to give answers in a specific format.<\/p>\n

With Le Chat you can click customise to see what the AI is told it is, and you can tweak it to be specific to what you want.<\/p>\n

For an example conversation<\/a> here is a sample conversation with the AI chat agent.<\/p>\n

The instructions for the agent are:<\/p>\n

\"Example<\/p>\n

In practice a web form or a template would achieve the same result.<\/p>\n

If you find yourself giving the same instructions in an LLM chat, then using agents will save you time and effort. With a few lines of code you can tell an LLM about the role, the things it should know about, and how you want the answer to be formatted.<\/p>\n

This can save you time, as well as save you having to repeat yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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