rareromfish / signal-aichat

An AI chatbot for Signal powered by Bing Chat, ChatGPT, and llama.cpp

signal-aichat is an AI-powered chatbot for the Signal messenger app. It currently supports:

• Bing Chat
• ChatGPT
• Any local LLM that works with llama.cpp (Vicuna, Alpaca, Koala, et al.)

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Setup instructions

0. Clone this repo:

git clone https://github.com/cycneuramus/signal-aichat

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1. signald

Start the signald container:

docker compose up -d signald

Drop into the container's shell:

docker exec -it signald /bin/bash

Once inside the container, either:

# link to an existing account:
$ signaldctl account link --device-name signal-aichat

or

# register a new account:
$ signaldctl account register [phone number]

For more information, see the documentation for signald.

Once the account is setup, populate the SIGNAL_PHONE_NUMBER variable in the .env file.

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2. Bing Chat:

See the EdgeGPT repository. TL;DR:

Checking access

• Install the latest version of Microsoft Edge
• Alternatively, you can use any browser and set the user-agent to look like you're using Edge (e.g., Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/111.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/111.0.1661.51). You can do this easily with an extension like "User-Agent Switcher and Manager" for Chrome and Firefox.
• Open bing.com/chat
• If you see a chat feature, you are good to go

Getting authentication

• Install the cookie editor extension for Chrome or Firefox
• Go to bing.com
• Open the extension
• Click "Export" on the bottom right, then "Export as JSON" (this saves your cookies to the clipboard)
• Paste your cookies into a file named cookies.json

Make sure to place the resulting cookies.json file in this repo directory.

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3. ChatGPT

• In the .env file, populate the OPENAI_API_KEY variable with your API key

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4. Llama models

• Place your model weights in the models directory
• In the .env file, change the model in the MODEL path variable to match your model file

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5. Deploy

docker compose up -d

And start chatting.