ryanliuntust / ellie-slack

Meet Ellie, Eliza's younger, hipper, psychobabble-friendly successor. She makes a great Slackbot.

ellie-slack

Meet Ellie, Eliza's younger, hipper, psychobabble-friendly successor. She makes a great Slackbot.

Background

Ellie's is Slack's Python-based real-time messaging bot wrapped around Daniel Connelly's Python implementation of Peter Norvig's Paradigms of AI Programming Eliza .. with updated diction. Loads has changed since 1991, and she seemed a little standoff-ish – which also led to her new, hip name.

The langauge updates rendered her internals less elegant, but I think – hope – they make Ellie more fun than Eliza ever was.

Modding Ellie

If you'd like to dive into Ellie's innerworkings, ellie.py is your file. Push changes back here, in a branch, if you think others will appreicate your wit.

Dependencies

• websocket-client
• python-slackclient

Installation

1. Download Ellie

git clone [email protected]:christinac/ellie-slack.git
cd ellie-slack

2. Install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Configure rtmbot (Slack instructions.) From the Slack console, you'll get to choose your bot's name and icon. Though we've become partial to Ellile, bot-naming is up to you.

cp example-config/rtmbot.conf .
vi rtmbot.conf
SLACK_TOKEN: "xoxb-11111111111-222222222222222"

4. Run her! (You've got to keep her running so long as you'd like her to keep chattering; something like nohup might be helpful.)

  python rtmbot.py

Ellie in action