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 # myai-discord
 Alternative to "My AI", by Snapchat, but on Discord.
+## Installation Steps
+### Preparing your environnement
+- Create your Discord bot [here](https://discord.com/developers/applications)
+- Create your OpenAI Developer Account [here](https://platform.openai.com)
+### Setting up the bot
+1. Install Python >= 3.8.10
+2. Install requirements with `python3 -m pip install -U -r requirements.txt`
+3. Create a `.env` file to setup your environnement variables.
+```
+MAX_TOKEN_PER_REQUEST = [Maximum tokens per request] (recommended: 1800-2000)
+TOKEN = [Your Discord bot's token]
+OPENAI_API_KEY = [OpenAI Token -- can be found at https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys]
+```
diff --git a/base-prompt.txt b/base-prompt.txt
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+You are My AI, a kind chatbot.
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diff --git a/main.py b/main.py
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+import time
+import discord
+from discord import app_commands
+from discord.ext import tasks
+import os
+import openai
+import sqlite3
+import tiktoken
+from dotenv import load_dotenv
+
+load_dotenv()
+
+openai.api_key = os.environ['OPENAI_API_KEY']
+db = sqlite3.connect('tokens.db')
+typing = []
+intents = discord.Intents.all()
+
+class App(discord.Client):
+    def __init__(self):
+        super().__init__(intents=intents)
+        self.tree = app_commands.CommandTree(client=self)
+
+    async def setup_hook(self) -> None:
+        return
+
+app = App()
+
+@tasks.loop(seconds=5)
+async def typing_loop():
+    for channel in typing:
+        try:
+            await channel.typing()
+        except:
+            typing.remove(channel)
+
+@app.event
+async def on_ready():
+    print('We have logged in as {0.user}'.format(app))
+    typing_loop.start()
+
+encoding = tiktoken.get_encoding('cl100k_base')
+def num_tokens_from_string(string: str) -> int:
+    """Returns the number of tokens in a text string."""
+    num_tokens = len(encoding.encode(string))
+    return num_tokens
+
+@app.event
+async def on_message(message: discord.Message):
+    print('msg received')
+    if not isinstance(message.channel, discord.DMChannel): return
+    if message.author.id == app.user.id: return
+    try:
+        c = db.cursor()
+        c.execute('SELECT * FROM message_history WHERE user_id = ? ORDER BY timestamp DESC', (message.author.id,))
+        msgs = c.fetchall()
+        message_token_usage = num_tokens_from_string(message.content)
+        max_token = int(os.environ['MAX_TOKEN_PER_REQUEST'])
+        with open('base-prompt.txt', 'r', encoding='utf-8') as f:
+            bprompt = f.read()
+        previous_tokens = 200+len(bprompt)+message_token_usage
+
+        # (message_id, user_id, content, token, role, timestamp)
+        # order by timestamp (most recent to least recent)
+        usable_messages = []
+        for msg in msgs:
+            d = previous_tokens + msg[3]
+            if d >= max_token:
+                break
+            previous_tokens += msg[3]
+            usable_messages.append(msg)
+        
+        usable_messages.reverse()
+
+        
+        messages = [{"role": "system", "content": bprompt}]
+        for v in usable_messages: messages.append({"role": v[4], "content": v[2]})
+        messages.append({"role": "user", "content": message.content})
+        await message.channel.typing()
+        typing.append(message.channel)
+        req = await openai.ChatCompletion.acreate(
+            model="gpt-3.5-turbo",
+            temperature=0.5,
+            max_tokens=max_token-(previous_tokens-200),
+            messages=messages
+        )
+        typing.remove(message.channel)
+        response = req['choices'][0]['message']['content']
+        prompt_used_tokens = req['usage']['prompt_tokens']
+        completion_used_tokens = req['usage']['completion_tokens']
+        r=await message.reply(response, allowed_mentions=discord.AllowedMentions.none())
+        c.execute('INSERT INTO message_history VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)', (message.id, message.author.id, message.content, prompt_used_tokens, 'user', int(message.created_at.timestamp())))
+        c.execute('INSERT INTO message_history VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?)', (r.id, message.author.id, response, completion_used_tokens, 'assistant', int(time.time())))
+        db.commit()
+    except Exception as e:
+        if message.channel in typing: typing.remove(message.channel)
+        await message.reply('I just uncountered an issue. Can you please report this problem to the administrator of the bot, or try again later?\n```py\n'+str(e)+'```')
+
+    
+
+
+app.run(os.environ['TOKEN'])
+
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
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+discord.py
+openai
+tiktoken
+python-dotenv
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