CNBC & E-Commerce AI News Chatbot Co-Pilot

An advanced AI chatbot co-pilot with a Flask web interface for interactive conversation and real-time news retrieval.

This chatbot co-pilot leverages the OpenAI API for natural language understanding, complemented by RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) to fetch up-to-date news and insights from CNBC News and top e-commerce sources.

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Tools Used

1. LangChain Framework – for user query synthesis and AI response generation
2. Flask – for building the web interface
3. GPT-3.5 – for natural language understanding
4. CNBC & E-Commerce News Sources – for current news and market updates

Steps to run:

1. Download this github repository
2. Create a virtual environment

python -m venv venv

3. Activate the virtual environment

`source venv/bin/activate` or `venv/Scripts/activate` [for Windows]

4. Install the requirements

`pip install -r requirements.txt`

5. Add your OpenAI API key in a .env file

6. On the terminal run the command below

`python app.py`

7. App should not be running on localhost default port