Add context, !chat clears the context !cont keeps it

index.js

@@ -3,13 +3,62 @@
 const irc = require('irc');
 const axios = require('axios');
 const config = require('./config.json');
+
+// context is a list of strings that are used to seed the chatgpt api and it's responses
+class Context {
+    messages = [];
+    currentResponse = '';
+
+    add_user_message(message) {
+        this.messages.push({ role: 'user', content: message });
+    }
+
+    add_assistant_message(message) {
+        this.messages.push({ role: 'assistant', content: message });
+    }
+
+    append_current_response(message) {
+        this.currentResponse += message;
+    }
+
+    end_line() {
+        const response_so_far = this.currentResponse;
+        this.currentResponse += "\n\n"
+        return response_so_far;
+    }
+
+    finish_current_response() {
+        this.add_assistant_message(this.currentResponse);
+        const the_response = this.currentResponse;
+        this.currentResponse = '';
+        return the_response;
+    }
+
+    is_response_in_progress() {
+        return this.currentResponse !== '';
+    }
+
+    clear() {
+        this.messages = [];
+        this.currentResponse = '';
+    }
+}
+
+const context = new Context();
+
 const client = new irc.Client(config.server, config.nick, {
     channels: config.channels,
 });
 
 // listen for messages that start with !chat and call the chatgpt api with a callback that prints the response line by line
 client.addListener('message', async (from, to, message) => {
-    if (message.startsWith('!chat')) {
+    is_chat_cmd = message.startsWith('!chat');
+    is_cont_cmd = message.startsWith('!cont');
+    if (is_chat_cmd || is_cont_cmd) {
+        if(context.is_response_in_progress()) { return; }
+        if(is_chat_cmd) {
+            context.clear();
+        }
         const query = message.slice(6);
         chatgpt(query, (line) => {
             client.say(to, line);
@@ -19,10 +68,13 @@ client.addListener('message', async (from, to, message) => {
 
 // function that calls the chatgpt streaming api (with server send events) and calls the callback function for each line
 async function chatgpt(query, callback) {
+    // a very primitive mutex to prevent multiple calls to the api at once
+    if(context.is_response_in_progress()) { return; }
+    context.add_user_message(query);
     const apiUrl = 'https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions';
-    
+
     const response = await axios.post(apiUrl, {
-        messages: [{ role: 'user', content: query }],
+        messages: [context.messages],
         model: 'gpt-3.5-turbo',
         stream: true,
     }, {
@@ -33,7 +85,6 @@ async function chatgpt(query, callback) {
         responseType: 'stream',
     });
 
-    let line = '';
     response.data.on('data', (event) => {
         let data = event.toString();
         let parts = data.split('\n');
@@ -41,8 +92,7 @@ async function chatgpt(query, callback) {
         for(part of parts) {
 		console.log(part);
             if(part === 'data: [DONE]') {
-		callback(line);
+                callback(context.finish_current_response());
-		line = '';
             } else if(part.startsWith('data: ')) {
                 let jsonString = part.slice(part.indexOf('{'), part.lastIndexOf('}') + 1);
                 try {
@@ -60,20 +110,18 @@ async function chatgpt(query, callback) {
                     let hasEndNewline = chunk.endsWith("\n");
 
                     if(hasStartNewline) {
-                        callback(line);
+                        callback(context.end_line())
-                        line = '';
                     }
                     
                     for (let i = 0; i < lines.length - 1; i++) {
-                        callback(line+lines[i]);
+                        context.append_current_response(lines[i]);
-                        line = '';
+                        callback(context.end_line());
                     }
 
-                    line += lines[lines.length - 1];
+                    context.append_current_response(lines[lines.length - 1]);
 
                     if(hasEndNewline) {
-                        callback(line);
+                        callback(context.end_line());
-                        line = '';
                     }
 
 		    if(line.length > 400) {