gptty 0.2.4

Chat GPT wrapper in your TTY

gptty

ChatGPT wrapper in your TTY

About

gptty is a ChatGPT shell interface that allows you to (1) interact with ChatGPT in a manner similar to the web application, but without needing to rely on the web application's stability; (2) preserve context across chat sessions and structure your conversations however you want; (3) save local copies of your conversations for easy reference.

Use Cases

Perhaps you are a system admininstrator configuring a web server for your employer. You're accessing the system from a physical interface, with internet connection but no desktop environment or graphical user interface. While configuring the web server, you receive an inexplicable error that you redirect to a file, but don't want to have to jump through hoops to copy it to another system with a browser so you can look up the error. Instead, you install gptty and redirect the error to the chat client with commands like gptty query --tag error --question "$(cat app.error | tr '\n' ' ')" (which will get rid of line breaks for you) or cat app.error | xargs -d '\n' -I {} gptty query --tag error --question "{}" (which presumes that your error spans only a single line).

Alternatively, you are a software developer or data scientist who wants to route data through ChatGPT, but wants to employ a highly abstract API to make these requests instead of familiarizing yourself intimately with the OpenAI API and its various language-specific wrappers.

Model Support

OpenAI makes a number of models available through their API. [1] Currently, gptty supports Completions (davinci, curie) and ChatCompletions (gpt-3.5-turbo, gpt-4). All you need to do is specify the model name in your config (default is text-davinci-003), and the application will handle the rest.

Installation

You can install gptty on pip:

pip install gptty

You can also install from git:

cd ~/Code # replace this with whatever directory you want to use
git clone https://github.com/signebedi/gptty.git
cd gptty/

# now install the requirements
python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e ./ # install the local package [optional but recommended to run as an executable]

Now, you can verify it is working by running gptty --help. If you experience an error, try configuring the app.

Configuration

gptty reads configuration settings from a file named gptty.ini, which the app expects to be located in the same directory that you are running gptty from unless you pass a custom config_file. The file uses the INI file format, which consists of sections, each with its own key-value pairs.

Key	Type	Default Value	Description
api_key	String	""	The API key for OpenAI's GPT service
your_name	String	"question"	The name of the input prompt
gpt_name	String	"response"	The name of the generated response
output_file	String	"output.txt"	The name of the file where the output will be saved
model	String	"text-davinci-003"	The name of the GPT model to use
temperature	Float	0.0	The temperature to use for sampling
max_tokens	Integer	250	The maximum number of tokens to generate for the response
max_context_length	Integer	150	The maximum length of the input context
context_keywords_only	Bool	True	Tokenize keywords to reduce API usage
preserve_new_lines	Bool	False	Keep original formatting of response

You can modify the settings in the configuration file to suit your needs. If a key is not present in the configuration file, the default value will be used. The [main] section is used to specify the program's settings.

[main]
api_key=my_api_key

This repository provides a sample configuration file assets/gptty.ini.example that you can use as a starting point.

Usage

Chat

The chat feature provides an interactive chat interface to communicate with ChatGPT. You can ask questions and receive responses in real-time.

To start the chat interface, run gptty chat. You can also specify a custom configuration file path by running:

gptty chat --config_path /path/to/your/gptty.ini

Inside the chat interface, you can type your questions or commands directly. To view the list of available commands, type :help, which will show the following options.

Metacommand	Description
:help	Display a list of available commands and their descriptions.
:quit	Exit ChatGPT.
:logs	Display the current configuration settings.
:context[a:b]	Display the context history, optionally specifying a range a and b. Under development

To use a command, simply type it into the command prompt and press Enter. For example, use the following command to display the current configuration settings in the terminal:

> :configs

api_key: SOME_CONFIG_HERE
your_name: question
gpt_name: response
output_file: output.txt
model: text-davinci-003
temperature: 0.0
max_tokens: 250
max_context_length: 5000

You can type a question into the prompt anytime, and it will generate a response for you. If you'd like to share context across queries, see the context section below.

Query

The query feature allows you to submit a single or multiple questions to ChatGPT and receive the answers directly in the command line.

To use the query feature, run something like:

gptty query --question "What is the capital of France?" --question "What is the largest mammal?"

You can also provide an optional tag to categorize your query:

gptty query --question "What is the capital of France?" --tag "geography"

You can specify a custom configuration file path if needed:

gptty query --config_path /path/to/your/gptty.ini --question "What is the capital of France?"

Remember that gptty uses a configuration file (by default gptty.ini) to store settings like API keys, model configurations, and output file paths. Make sure you have a valid configuration file before running gptty commands.

Verbosity

By adding the --verbose tag at the end of your chat and query commands, the application will provide additional debug data, including token-counts for each request. This can be useful when you need to track API usage rates.

Context

Tagging text for context when using the chat and query subcommands in this app can help improve the accuracy of the generated responses. Here's how the app handles context with the chat subcommand:

1. Identify the context of your question or statement.
2. Assign a tag to that context. The tag can be a word or short phrase that describes the context like bananas or shakespeare.
3. Include the tag in your input message by prefixing it with [tag]. For example, if the context of your question is "cooking," you can tag it as [cooking]. Make sure to use the same tag consistently for all related queries.
4. The application will save your tagged question and response in the output file specified in the code output file.
5. When asking subsequent questions on the same topic, provide the tag in your input message in order to retrieve the relevant context for the generated response.

Here is an example of what this might look like, using questions tagged as [shakespeare]. Notice how, in the second question, the name 'William Shakespeare' is not mentioned at all.

When you are using the query subcommand, follow the same steps described above but, instead of prepending the text of your questions with your desired tag, use the --tag option to include the tag when submitting your query. For example, if the context of your question is "cooking," you can use:

gptty --question "some question" --tag cooking

The application will save your tagged question and response in the output file specified in the config file.

Scripting

You can automate the process of sending multiple questions to the gptty query command using a bash script. This can be particularly useful if you have a list of questions stored in a file, and you want to process them all at once. For example, let's say you have a file questions.txt with each question on a new line, like below.

What are the key differences between machine learning, deep learning, and artificial intelligence?
How do I choose the best programming language for a specific project or task?
Can you recommend some best practices for code optimization and performance improvement?
What are the essential principles of good software design and architecture?
How do I get started with natural language processing and text analysis in Python?
What are some popular Python libraries or frameworks for building web applications?
Can you suggest some resources to learn about data visualization and its implementation in Python?
What are some important concepts in cybersecurity, and how can I apply them to my projects?
How do I ensure that my machine learning models are fair, ethical, and unbiased?
Can you recommend strategies for staying up-to-date with the latest trends and advancements in technology and programming?

You can send each question from the questions.txt file to the gptty query command using the following bash one-liner:

xargs -d '\n' -I {} gptty query --question "{}" < questions.txt