oobabot 0.1.0

A Discord bot which talks to Large Language Model AIs running on oobabooga's text-generation-webui

oobabot

oobabot is a Discord bot which talks to a Large Language Model AIs (like LLaMA, llama.cpp, etc...), running on oobabooga's text-generation-webui.

Motivation

Text-generative UIs are cool to run at home, and Discord is fun to mess with your friends. Why not combine the two and have something awesome!

Real motivation: I wanted a chatbot in my discord that would act like my cat. A "catbot" if you will.

Features

oobabot	how that's awesome
user-supplied persona	you supply the persona on how would like the bot to behave
multiple converations	can track multiple conversational threads, and reply to each in a contextually appropriate way
watchwords	can monitor all channels in a server for one or more wakewords or @-mentions
private conversations	can chat with you 1:1 in a DM
good Discord hygiene	splits messages into independent sentences, pings the author in the first one
low-latency	streams the reply live, sentence by sentence. Provides lower latency, especially on longer responses.
stats	track token generation speed, latency, failures and usage
easy networking	connects to discord from your machine using websockets, so no need to expose a server to the internet

Getting Started with oobabot

See the Installation Guide for step-by-step instructions

Installation tl;dr

1. Install oobabooga's text-generation-webui and enable its API module
2. Create a Discord bot account, invite it to your server, and note its authentication token.
3. Install oobabot (see INSTALL.md)

~: pip install oobabot

~: export DISCORD_TOKEN = __your_bots_discord_token__

~: oobabot --base-url ws://oobabooga-hostname:5005/ --ai-name YourBotsName --persona "You are a cat named YourBotsName"

You should now be able to run oobabot from whenever pip installed it.

usage: oobabot [-h] [--base-url BASE_URL] [--ai-name AI_NAME] [--wakewords [WAKEWORDS ...]]
               [--persona PERSONA] [--local-repl] [--log-all-the-things LOG_ALL_THE_THINGS]

Discord bot for oobabooga's text-generation-webui

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --base-url BASE_URL   Base URL for the oobabooga instance. This should be ws://hostname[:port] for
                        plain websocket connections, or wss://hostname[:port] for websocket
                        connections over TLS.
  --ai-name AI_NAME     Name of the AI to use for requests. This can be whatever you want, but might
                        make sense to be the name of the bot in Discord.
  --wakewords [WAKEWORDS ...]
                        One or more words that the bot will listen for. The bot will listen in all
                        discord channels can access for one of these words to be mentioned, then
                        reply to any messages it sees with a matching word. The bot will always reply
                        to @-mentions and direct messages, even if no wakewords are supplied.
  --persona PERSONA     This prefix will be added in front of every user-supplied request. This is
                        useful for setting up a 'character' for the bot to play. Alternatively, this
                        can be set with the OOBABOT_PERSONA environment variable.
  --local-repl          start a local REPL, instead of connecting to Discord
  --log-all-the-things LOG_ALL_THE_THINGS
                        prints all oobabooga requests and responses in their entirety to STDOUT

Also, to authenticate to Discord, you must set the environment variable: DISCORD_TOKEN = <your bot's
discord token>

Required settings

• DISCORD_TOKEN environment variable

  Set your shell environment's DISCORD_TOKEN to token Discord provided when you set up the bot account. It should be something like a 72-character-long random-looking string.

  bash example

  export DISCORD_TOKEN=___YOUR_TOKEN___
  

  fish example

  set -Ux DISCORD_TOKEN ___YOUR_TOKEN___
  

• --base-url

  The base URL of oobabooga's streaming web API. This is required if the oobabooga machine is different than where you're running oobabot.

  By default, this will be port 5005 (even though the HTML UI runs on a different port). The protocol should typically be ws://.

  All together, this should look something like:

  --base-url ws://localhost:5005
  

  This is also the default value, but any other setting should follow the same form.

Optional settings

• --ai-name

  the name the AI will be instructed to call itself. Note that this technically doesn't need to be the same as the bot in your discord, but it would likely make sense to your users if they are at least similar.

• --wakewords

  one or more words that the bot will look for. It will reply to any message which contains one of these words, in any channel.

• --local-repl

  instead of connecting to discord, just start up a local REPL and send these prompts directly to the oobabooga server. Useful if you want to test if that part is working in isolation. Note that in this mode you will be sending the oobabooga server raw input, and so the persona or AI name settings will be ignored.

Persona: the fun setting

• --persona

  is a short few sentences describing the role your bot should act as. For instance, this is the setting I'm using for my cat-bot, whose name is "Rosie".

Here is some background information about Rosie:
- You are Rosie
- You are a cat
- Rosie is a female cat
- Rosie is owned by Chris, whose nickname is xxxxxxx
- Rosie loves Chris more than anything
- You are 9 years old
- You enjoy laying on laps and murder
- Your personality is both witty and profane
- The people in this chat room are your friends

Persona may be set from the command line with the --persona argument.

Alternatively, it can be set through the environment variable OOBABOT_PERSONA.

Then, run it

You should see something like this if everything worked:

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Interacting with oobabot

By default, oobabot will listen for three types of messages in the servers it's connected to:

1. any message in which oobabot's account is @-mentioned
2. any direct message
3. any message containing a provided wakeword (see Optional Settings)

Known Issues

• ooba's text generation can errs with OOM when more than one request comes in at once.
• sometimes the bot wants to continue conversations on behalf of other members of the chatroom. I have some hacks in place to notice and truncate this behavior, but it can lead to terse responses on occasion.
• found one not listed here? Create an issue on github!