AIChat
Using ChatGPT/GPT-3.5/GPT-4 in the terminal.
AIChat in chat mode:
AIChat in command mode:
Install
With cargo
cargo install --force aichat
Binaries on macOS, Linux, Windows
Download it from Github Releases, unzip and add aichat to your $PATH.
Features
- Support chat and command modes
- Predefine AI roles
- Use GPT prompt easily
- Powerful Chat REPL
- Context-ware conversation
- syntax highlighting markdown and other 200 languages
- Stream output with hand typing effect
- Support multiple models
- Support proxy
- Support dark/light theme
- Save chat messages
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
organization_id: "org-xxx" # optional, set organization id
model: "gpt-3.5-turbo" # optional, choose a model
temperature: 1.0 # optional, see https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat/create#chat/create-temperature
save: true # optional, If set true, aichat will save chat messages to message.md
highlight: true # optional, Set false to turn 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
conversation_first: false # optional, If set true, start a conversation immediately upon repl
light_theme: false # optional, If set true, use light theme
connect_timeout: 10 # optional, Set a timeout in seconds for connect to gpt.
You can use
.info
to view the current configuration file path and roles file path.
You can use Enviroment Variables to customize certain configuration items.
Roles
We can let ChatGPT play a certain role through prompt
to make it better generate what we want.
We can predefine a batch of roles in roles.yaml
.
We can get the location of
roles.yaml
through the repl's.info
command or cli's--info
option.
For example, we define a role
- name: shell
prompt: >
I want you to act as a linux shell expert.
I want you to answer only with bash code.
Do not provide explanations.
Let ChatGPT answer questions in the role of a linux shell expert.
〉.role shell
shell〉 extract encrypted zipfile app.zip to /tmp/app
mkdir /tmp/app
unzip -P PASSWORD app.zip -d /tmp/app
We have provided many awesome Role Examples.
Chat REPL
aichat has a powerful Chat REPL.
The Chat REPL supports:
- Emacs keybinding
- Command autocompletion
- History search
- Fish-style history autosuggestion hints
- Edit/past multiline input
- Undo support
multi-line editing
Type {
or (
at the beginning of the line to enter the multi-line editing mode. In this mode you can type or paste multiple lines of text. Type the corresponding }
or )
at the end of the line to exit the mode and submit the content.
〉{ convert json below to toml
{
"an": [
"arbitrarily",
"nested"
],
"data": "structure"
}}
.help
- Print help message
〉.help
.info Print the information
.set Modify the configuration temporarily
.model Choose a model
.prompt Add a GPT prompt
.role Select a role
.clear role Clear the currently selected role
.conversation Start a conversation.
.clear conversation End current conversation.
.history Print the history
.clear history Clear the history
.help Print this help message
.exit Exit the REPL
Type `{` to enter the multi-line editing mode, type '}' to exit the mode.
Press Ctrl+C to abort readline, Ctrl+D to exit the REPL
.info
- view current configuration information.
〉.info
config_file /home/alice/.config/aichat/config.yaml
roles_file /home/alice/.config/aichat/roles.yaml
messages_file /home/alice/.config/aichat/messages.md
api_key sk-xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
organization_id -
model gpt-3.5-turbo
temperature -
save true
highlight true
proxy -
conversation_first false
light_theme false
connect_timeout 10
dry_run false
.set
- modify the configuration temporarily
〉.set dry_run true
〉.set highlight false
〉.set save false
〉.set temperature 1.2
.model
- choose a model
> .model gpt-4
> .model gpt-4-32k
> .model gpt-3.5-turbo
.prompt
- use GPT prompt
When you set up a prompt, every message sent later will carry the prompt.
〉{ .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 want you to reply only with emojis.
}
Done
P〉You are a genius
👉🧠💡👨🎓
P〉I'm embarrassed
🙈😳
.prompt
actually creates a temporary role internally, so run .clear role
to clear the prompt.
When you are satisfied with the prompt, add it to roles.yaml
for later use.
.role
- let the ai play a role
Select a role.
〉.role emoji
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}.
temperature: null
AI play the role we specified
emoji〉hello
👋
Clear current selected role
emoji〉.clear role
〉hello
Hello there! How can I assist you today?
.conversation
- start a context-aware conversation
By default, aichat behaves in a one-off request/response manner.
You can run .conversation
to enter context-aware mode, or set config.conversation_first
true to start a conversation immediately upon repl.
〉.conversation
$list 1 to 5, one per line 4089
1
2
3
4
5
$reverse the list 4065
5
4
3
2
1
When enter conversation mode, prompt 〉
will change to $
, A number will appear on the right, which means how many tokens left to use.
Once the number becomes zero, you need to start a new conversation.
Exit conversation mode
$.clear conversation 4043
〉
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.