Show HN: A ChatGPT TUI with custom bots

• textual

  149 23,447 9.9 Python

  The lean application framework for Python. Build sophisticated user interfaces with a simple Python API. Run your apps in the terminal and a web browser.

  

Hi HN! We just shipped a full-featured TUI (Text User Interface) for chatting with your Marvin bots, powered by GPT 4 or GPT-3.5. Like all of Marvin, it's fully open-source and we hope you find it useful. To launch it, upgrade and run `marvin chat`.

The TUI is built with Textual (https://github.com/textualize/textual/) and uses some of its newest features including background workers and modals. We've made base TUIs before but this is the first one that's a true "app" with many screens and coordinated global state. Happy to answer any questions about working with Textual - once it "clicked" it was surprisingly similar to building a traditional front end! Small note: Terminal.app on MacOS isn't great for TUIs, so while it'll work, we suggest an alternative terminal.

One of our goals with the TUI was to integrate Marvin's bots into the familiar chat UX. Bots can have distinct personalities, instructions, and use plugins, so each one is like a mini "conversational application." You might know about Marvin because of AI Functions, but at its core Marvin is a library for building and deploying bots (in fact, AI functions are actually a bot!). We started building the TUI as a way to quickly explore and assess our bots' capabilities. It quickly became so useful that we decided to make it a first-class experience.

We've preloaded several bots, including one that can guide you through an RPG and another that is obsessed with explaining regex, and will add many more. You can even create your own bots just by asking the default bot (Marvin) to help you.

We hope the TUI is a fun way to quickly interact with your bots and it was a great way for us to learn Textual. Please check out the code and let us know what enhancements we can add!

• gish

  4 62 7.9 TypeScript

  GPT command line (by drorm)

Well, if you're interested in something more lite-weight, I wrote

https://github.com/drorm/gish

which is a shell command that lets you interact with GPT with flags, pipes, etc. in a much more unixy way.

This TUI has some impressive features, like the bots and plugins, but I feel gish covers most of the use cases, specifically for software development.

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• leah

  2 7 10.0 TypeScript

  Discontinued Leah combines voice recognition, voice synthesis and ChatGPT to provide an environment where you can improve your foreign language skills.

• marvin

  16 4,695 9.9 Python

  ✨ Build AI interfaces that spark joy

  

I see Langchain has support for Azure chat models, and Marvin is built on Langchain so it may not be so difficult! Tracking issue here: https://github.com/PrefectHQ/marvin/issues/189

• LLM-Repl

  2 22 5.7 Python

  A REPL interface to interact with various LLMs like ChatGPT etc.

I played around with the idea of creating a TUI for chatGPT as well but I gave up because of the lack of multi line support in textualize. I created a REPL instead using rich. If you wanna give it a shot you can find it at https://github.com/Phat3/LLM-Repl

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