- 30% of callers now call about topics (prestige TV, science, poker,
astrophotography, physics, tech, US news) instead of personal problems
- 86 curated interests weighted toward shows like Severance, Breaking Bad,
The Wire, LOST, Westworld, etc. Removed reality TV/celebrity gossip
- 32-town knowledge base with real facts so callers don't invent landmarks
- Smart topic detection for news enrichment (keyword->search query mapping)
- Enrichment now summarizes articles naturally via LLM instead of quoting headlines
- Prompt rewrite for varied response lengths and no rehashing
- Extra weight for Animas and Lordsburg callers
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>