AI Chat in Emacs

Use AI chat features in Emacs, currently including Bing Chat and OpenAI’s ChatGpt.

Installation

Requirements

• emacs-websocket To communicate with Bing Chat, if you have already installed this package, please update to the latest version.
• emacs-async-await
• markdown-mode

Install

Clone the repository to your local machine, and add the path to your load-path :

git clone https://github.com/xhcoding/emacs-aichat.git ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/emacs-aichat

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/emacs-aichat")

add the following code to your emacs startup file:

(require 'aichat)

Or load separately

(require 'aichat-bingai)
;; or
(require 'aichat-openai)

Bing Chat

Below is information on setting up Bing AI. If you are interested in learning about using OpenAI, please scroll down to the OpenAI section.

Setup

Check access (Required)

• Install the latest version of Microsoft Edge
• Open http://bing.com/chat
• If you see a chat feature, you are good to go

Getting authentication (Required)

emacs-aichat uses browser cookies to log in to Bing Chat, so you need to log in to http://www.bing.com first in your browser.

There are two ways to get the browser’s cookie, you can choose any convenient method.

Option one

If you have a Python environment, run pip3 install browser_cookie3 to install browser_cookie3, then open the terminal and execute the following code:

python -c "import browser_cookie3;list(map(lambda c: print('{} {} {} {} {} {}'.format(c.name, c.value, c.expires,c.domain, c.secure, c.path)), filter(lambda c: c.domain in ('.bing.com', 'www.bing.com'), browser_cookie3.edge(domain_name='bing.com'))))"

If you can see the output and there is a _U field in the output, then you can log in successfully with this method.

Option two

• Install the cookie editor extension for Edge
• Go to bing.com
• Open the extension
• Click “Export” on the bottom right (This saves your cookies to clipboard)
• Paste your cookies into a file cookies.json
• Set aichat-bingai-cookies-file to your cookies.json path

Proxy [Optional]

Currently only tested http proxy, set aichat-bingai-proxy as proxy address, for example:

(setq aichat-bingai-proxy "localhost:51837")

If your IP address is in China, you must set up a proxy to access it.

Usage

Commands

• aichat-bingai-chat : Send a conversation message, adding C-u prefix will start a new conversation
• aichat-bingai-assistant : Send the selected region or the input content, and the returned result is displayed in the Buffer defined by aichat-bingai-assistant-buffer
• aichat-bingai-replace-or-insert : Send the selected region or the input content, and replace the selected region or insert at the current position with the returned result

Customized fixed questioning approach.

Use aichat-bingai-prompt-create to create a fixed way of asking questions, such as:

(aichat-bingai-prompt-create "translator"
                             :input-prompt "Please translate: "
                             :text-format "Please identify the language I am speaking. If it is Chinese, please translate it into English; if it is not Chinese, please translate it into Chinese. Your answer must only contain the translated content. The following is the sentence I want to translate:\n%s"
                             :chat t
                             :assistant t
                             :replace-or-insert t)

The above configuration will generate three functions: aichat-bingai-chat-translator, aichat-bingai-assistant-translator, and aichat-bingai-replace-or-insert-translator, which have the same effect as the above three commands, but the content of the query will be in the format of text-format.

Options

• aichat-bingai-cookies-file : The path of cookies file.
• aichat-bingai-conversation-style : Conversation style, optional values are: creative , balanced or precise , default is balanced
• aichat-bingai-chat-file : a file that saves chat history
• aichat-bingai-chat-display-function : a function that displays chat files
• aichat-bingai-assistant-buffer : Display the buffer name of the content returned by aichat-bingai-assistant
• aichat-bingai-assistant-display-function : The function to display aichat-bingai-assistant-buffer, default to display-buffer

OpenAI

Setup

AppKey

emacs-aichat obtains AppKey through auth-source-pick-first-password, and writes your appkey into ~/.authinfo file, with the following format:

machine platform.openai.com login aichat-openai password your-app-key

Proxy [Optional]

Currently only tested http proxy, set aichat-openai-proxy as proxy address, for example:

(setq aichat-openai-proxy "localhost:51837")

Usage

Commands

• aichat-openai-assistant : Send the selected region or the input content, and the returned result is displayed in the Buffer defined by aichat-openai-assistant-buffer

Options

• aichat-openai-proxy : set up an HTTP proxy that requests OpenAI
• aichat-openai-assistant-buffer : the buffer name of the OpenAI Assistant result
• aichat-openai-assistant-display-function : the function of display assistant buffer

Feedback Issues

To feedback your issue, please follow these steps:

1. Open the debug mode by typing the command aichat-toggle-debug.
2. Submit an issue and attach the content of the *AICHAT-DEBUG* buffer when an error occurs.

Acknowledgements

• EdgeGPT
• mind-wave
• awesome-chatgpt-prompts