AIChat

Chat with ChatGPT-3.5 in the terminal.

Install

With cargo

cargo install --force aichat

Binaries on macOS, Linux, Windows

Download from Github Releases, unzip and add opscan to your $PATH.

Features

• Compared to the browser, the terminal starts faster and needs less resources.
• Interactive chat and imperative query.
• Support highlight.
• Predefine prompts for role playing.
• History query/completion.
• Persist chat messages.
• Support proxy.
• Written in rust, single executable file, cross-platform.

Config

On first launch, aichat will guide you through configuration.

> No config file, create a new one? Yes
> Openai API Key: sk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Use proxy? Yes
> Set proxy: socks5://127.0.0.1:1080
> Save chat messages Yes

After setting, it will automatically create the configuration file. Of course, you can also manually set the configuration file.

api_key: "<YOUR SECRET API KEY>"        # Request via https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys
temperature: 1.0                        # optional, see https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat/create#chat/create-temperature
save: true                              # optional, If set to true, aichat will save chat messages to message.md
no_highlight: false                     # optional, Whether to disable highlight
proxy: "socks5://127.0.0.1:1080"        # optional, set proxy server. e.g. http://127.0.0.1:8080 or socks5://127.0.0.1:1080

The default config dir is as follows, You can override config dir with $AICHAT_CONFIG_DIR.

• Linux: /home/alice/.config/aichat
• Windows: C:\Users\Alice\AppData\Roaming\aichat
• MacOS: /Users/Alice/Library/Application Support

aichat may generate the following files in the config dir:

• config.yaml: configuration file.
• roles.yaml: role definition file.
• history.txt: repl history file.
• messages.md: chat messages file.

Roles

We can let ChatGPT play a certain role through prompt to make it better generate what we want. See awesome-chatgpt-prompts for details.

We can predefine a batch of roles in roles.yaml. For example, we define a emoji translator as follows.

- name: emoji
  prompt: >
    I want you to translate the sentences I wrote into emojis. I will write the sentence, and you will express it with emojis.
    I just want you to express it with emojis. I don't want you to reply with anything but emoji.
    When I need to tell you something in English, I will do it by wrapping it in curly brackets like {like this}.
    My first sentence is:    

Let ChatGPT answer questions in the role of a emoji translator

$ aichat --role emoji I am very angry
😠💢👿

In interactive chat, we do this:

〉.role emoji

〉I am very angry

License

Copyright (c) 2023 aichat-developers.

aichat is made available under the terms of either the MIT License or the Apache License 2.0, at your option.

See the LICENSE-APACHE and LICENSE-MIT files for license details.