Discord AI Bot

Discord bot to interact with Ollama as a chatbot

Archived

I have decided to archive this project as I no longer have the time to maintain it. If you would like to take over the project, please let me know.

Set-up instructions

1. Install nvm
   • nvm use OR just use node 20
2. Install Ollama (ditto)
3. Pull (download) a model, e.g ollama pull orca or ollama pull llama2
4. Start Ollama by running ollama serve
5. Create a Discord bot
   • Under Application » Bot
     • Enable Message Content Intent
     • Enable Server Members Intent (for replacing user mentions with the username)
6. Invite the bot to a server
   1. Go to Application » OAuth2 » URL Generator
   2. Enable bot
   3. Enable Send Messages, Read Messages/View Channels, and Read Message History
   4. Under Generated URL, click Copy and paste the URL in your browser
7. Rename .env.example to .env and edit the .env file
   • You can get the token from Application » Bot » Token, never share this with anyone
   • Make sure to change the model if you aren't using orca
   • Ollama URL can be kept the same unless you have changed the port
   • You can use multiple Ollama servers at the same time by separating the URLs with commas
   • Set the channels to the channel ID, comma separated
     1. In Discord, go to User Settings » Advanced, and enable Developer Mode
     2. Right click on a channel you want to use, and click Copy Channel ID
   • You can edit the system message the bot uses, or disable it entirely
8. npm install
9. npm build
10. Start the bot with npm start
11. You can interact with the bot by @mentioning it with your message

ENVS/FLAGS

please refer to EnvironmentFlags

Set-up instructions with Docker

1. Install Docker
   • Should be atleast compatible with version 3 of compose (docker engine 1.13.0+)
2. Repeat steps 2—7 from the other setup instructions
3. Start the bot with make compose-up if you have Make installed
   • Otherwise, try docker compose -p discord-ai up instead
4. You can interact with the bot by @mentioning it with your message