Purpose

Quick & dirty CLI clone of ChatGPT that requires an OpenAI key.

Allows you to experiment with the API and various techniques such as preprocessing, postprocessing, and chaining, and so on

Prerequisites

• *nix terminal or WSL for Windows
• Docker
• VS Code with devcontainers extension installed
• An OpenAI API key

Instructions

1. Clone this repository from your terminal:

git clone git@github.com:bill-c-martin/chatgpt-cli-clone.git

2. Open in VS Code:

cd chatgpt-cli-clone && code .

3. Open the VS Code command pallete (Ctrl+Shift+P) and entering Dev Containers: Reopen in container
4. Open a new terminal window within VS Code itself
5. Run npm install
6. Add your OpenAI key to an OPENAI_API_KEY variable in a newly-created .env file, replacing your-key-here with your actual OpenAI API key:

echo "OPENAI_API_KEY=your-key-here" > .env

7. Finally, start the ChatGPT CLI clone by runnning: node index.js