Discord AI Bot

Discord bot to interact with Ollama as a chatbot

Set-up instructions

1. Install Node.js (if you have a package manager, use that instead to install this)
   • Make sure to install at least v14 of Node.js
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 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 IP can be kept the same unless you have changed the port
   • 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. Start the bot with npm start
9. You can interact with the bot by @mentioning it with your message