OpenAI GPT-3

Chatness currently supports OpenAI GPT-3 as a chatbot engine. You can use it to create a chatbot that can answer questions and have a conversation with your users.

To configure OpenAI GPT-3 you need to create an account and get an API key.

Once you have the API key, you need to add it to the functions/src/config.ts file:

export const OPENAI_API_KEY = "xyz";

you can also use environment variables to set the API key:

export const OPENAI_API_KEY = process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY;

Don't worry, your API key is not exposed to the client. It's only used in the server, hence the functions folder.

Testing a conversation

To check if AI is working, open the Chatness app, go to the contacts list, add "Alicia" and start a conversation with her.

Currently AI conversation is only available in PM (private messages) with users defined as AI.

Modifying the AI user

Alicia is the default AI user, but you can change her name and avatar by modifying the User collection in database, just make sure to set the ai property to true. Alternativaly you can change/add new AI users within the json seeder at scripts/seed/users.json and re-run the seed command.

Modifying the ML model

By default Chatness uses the text-davinci-003 model as it's included in the free tier, but you can always change to another model by modifying the OPENAI_MODEL constant in functions/src/config/openai.ts file.

Tweaking prompt intro

You can tweak and provide useful information to the AI beforehand. Just edit the file at functions/src/config/chatgpt.ts.