The Lying Machine

An AI search engine that plays circus music and uses LLMs to answer your questions, tossing in a lie you may or may not notice, because we are all clowns for trusting these search results.

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Tech stack

• Next.js app router with Tailwind
• Together AI for LLM inference
• Llama-3 for the LLMs
• Serper for the search API
• Helicone for observability

How it works

1. Take in a user's question
2. Make a request to the bing search API to look up the top 6 results and show them
3. Scrape text from the 6 links bing sent back and store it as context
4. Make a request to Llama with the user's question + context & stream it back to the user
5. Make another request to Llama to come up with 3 related questions the user can follow up with

Cloning & running

1. Fork or clone the repo
2. Create an account at Together AI for the LLM
3. Create an account at SERP API or with Azure (Bing Search API)
4. Create an account at Helicone for observability
5. Create a .env (use the .example.env for reference) and replace the API keys
6. Run bun install and bun dev to install dependencies and run locally