Discord Ollama Adapter

By Joe Jagger. Made for the r/okbuddychicanery discord server.

"Have some more chicken. Have some more pie. It doesn't matter if it's boiled or fried.

— Chuck 'Chicanery' McGill

'Discord Character Bot' because it was created to imitate a character as a joke.

In practice, this is a Discord <-> Ollama connector with surprising functionality.

allowed-channels.txt denotes channels wherein the bot can talk. A newline seperates the channels. systemprompt.txt is the system prompt. It's currently set to James McGill from Better Call Saul. [PROPERTY OF AMC]

Both are checked at runtime, so no reboot is needed for modifications. They mount directly to their respective files.

Environment Variables

OLLAMA_SERVER=http://ollama:11434
DISCORD_TOKEN=Your Bot Token.
OLLAMA_MODEL_NAME=gemma3:4b
OLLAMA_HOST="0.0.0.0"
OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE="-1"

The only thing you should change is DISCORD_TOKEN or the model.

Deployment

"Waltuh, you're gonna need Docker installed for this, Waltuh.
I'm not running Ollama on my host unless I'm stupid, Waltuh.
Containerization is the future, Waltuh."

— Mike 'Pimento' Ehrmantraut

DCB is designed to be deployed with Docker. It is by far the easiest way to set it up and have it running reliably. You could run it on a host without docker, but you'd need to uncomment load_dotenv() at the top of main.py to make it load the envfile correctly, and also run ollama seperately.

Docker

Paste the following into your CLI.

git clone https://github.com/j-jagger/discord-character-bot
cd discord-character-bot

then:

nano .env

(doesn't have to be nano. Use Vim or eMacs if you're deranged.)

fill the env file from the top out, then run

docker compose up -d --build

and it should run!