svc-user / chat-console

A console application to chat with ChatGPT using the OpenAI Chat API. Requires a Paid account and an API key at OpenAI.

chat-console 🤖💬

A console application to chat with ChatGPT using the OpenAI Chat API. Requires a Paid account and an API key at OpenAI.

Getting started 🚀

First you'll need an OpenAI account, second you'll need a paid account by adding a payment method 💳 and lastly you'll need to create an API key 🔑 to use with this application.

At first run a settings.json file is created. Set your ApiKey in that file and restart the application.

Help ❓❔❓

Run the command /help in the console to get help. The output is as follows:

Command	Description
/help	displays helpful information about the chatbot.
/reset	clear chat context. Start from scratch.
/export	Exports the current chat history to a log.
/prompts	list prompts stored in the Prompts directory.
/prompt <prompt file>	select a prompt. Call with no promt-file to unset the prompt.
/clear	clears the chat window.
/quit or /exit	ends the conversation with the chatbot and close the bot.

The settings file 📄

Settings are persisted in a json-file located under %USERPROFILE%/.chat-console/settings.json.

The RequestParams settings parameter corresponds to the chat completion request as documented by OpenAI here.

Other settings are local to the application.

Setting	Description
SystemMessage	If set, this string will be used to set the "system"-message for instructing the model as to what and how it should act. Read more about it here.. Can be set for a session by using the /prompt command.
ApiKey	You API key.

Logs 📝

Logs that have been generated with the /export command can be found under %USERPROFILE%/.chat-console/Logs/.

Prompts 📝

Prompts can be stored in the %USERPROFILE%/.chat-console/Prompts/ directory.

Todo ✔️

• Multiline input
• Conversation logging
• Count tokens for ContextLength instead of messages.
• Multiline input
• Prompts library