Chad-GPT

Table of Contents

• About
  • Stack
• Setup
  • Preconditions
  • Basic Setup
  • Extended Setup
• Commands and Options
  • Commands
    • tell me/say
    • help
  • Available Personas

About

Figure 1. Chad-GPT in Action

Chad is a command line tool that provides you with the entire knowledge of Chat GPT in your terminal.

Well…​ kind of.

The application makes use of a lesser known capability of ChatGpt, its at times hilarious potential to leverage personas in responses.

Stack

The application is a thin wrapper over the Open AI API using

• Java 17

• Spring Boot 3.1

• Maven

Setup

Preconditions

• OpenAI API Key: The application requires an OpenAI API key to be available as environment variable with the key CHAT_GPT_API_KEY.

💡	Open API Access Chad-GPT requires a valid OpenAI Platform API Key to work. To get such an API key, you will need to register with OpenAI first. At the time of writing, these API keys included a free trial usage of 5$ which gets you surprisingly far.

Basic Setup

1. Clone the repository using

   https://github.com/kocmana/chad-gpt.git

2. Package the application using

   mvn clean package

3. Run the created target/chad-gpt-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar using

   java -jar chad-gpt-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar what is YOUR_QUERY_HERE

Extended Setup

1. Copy the created jar file to a suitable location of your liking

2. On MacOS/Linux: Open ~/.zshrc or your Bash/ZSH configuration location and add an alias e.g.:

   alias chad="CHAT_GPT_API_KEY=YOUR_API_KEY_HERE java -jar chad-gpt-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT"

3. Run chad with ease using:

   chad tell me how to get my kids to sleep.

Commands and Options

Commands

ChadGPT currently provides the following commands:

tell me/say

The command will provide a response to the subsequent query.

Two options are supported:

Table 1. Tell me options

Argument	Alias	Required	Default
query		yes
as	persona	no	CHAD

help

The command provides the default help text autogenerated from Spring Shell.

Available Personas

The following table provides an overview of all supported personas along with the used assistant descriptions and additional query hints that are being used.

Table 2. Available Personas

Persona	Assistant Description	Query Hint
CHAD	You are a stereotypical chad.	Answer as if you were a stereotypical chad.
THREE_YEAR_OLD	You are helpful assistant providing support to a three year old kid.	Answer as if you would explain it to a three year old kid.
GRANNY	You are a helpful old grandmother.	Explain the following as if you would be an old grandmother.
POE	You are a helpful assistant talking like the author Edgar Allen Poe.	Answer the following query as if you would be Edgar Allen Poe.