SlackBot-GPT

This project implements a Slack bot that integrates with OpenAI's GPT models to respond to user mentions.

Core Functionality (main.py)

• Framework: Uses Flask as the web server and Slack Bolt for Python to handle Slack events.
• Trigger: Listens for @app_mention events in Slack channels where the bot is present.
• Processing:
  • Extracts the user's message from the event payload.
  • Sends the message as a prompt to the OpenAI Chat Completions API (gpt-3.5-turbo model).
  • Includes a system prompt identifying the bot as a helpful assistant from the "Stanford Technology Training team".
• Response: Posts the generated response from OpenAI back to the originating Slack channel as a reply in the thread.
• Dependencies: Flask, openai, slack_bolt, slack_sdk, gunicorn.

Other Components

• cinethinker.py: A command-line interface script to interact directly with a specific, pre-existing OpenAI Assistant (using the Assistants API). This is separate from the main Slack bot functionality.
• slack-api-langchain: An alternative implementation of the Slack event handler, also using Flask. This version utilizes LangChain (ChatOpenAI) for interacting with the GPT model and includes features like reaction emojis and optional broadcasting of replies to dedicated channels.

Setup

1. Environment Variables: The application requires the following environment variables to be set:

   • OPENAI_API_KEY: Your OpenAI API key.
   • SLACK_BOT_TOKEN: Your Slack bot token.
   • SLACK_SIGNING_SECRET: Your Slack app's signing secret.
   • PORT (Optional): The port for the Flask server (defaults to 3000 in main.py or 8080 in slack-api-langchain).
   • The slack-api-langchain script also uses OPENAI_ORGANIZATION (required), GPT_MODEL (optional), and DEDICATED_CHANNELS (optional).

2. Dependencies: Install the required Python packages:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Running:

   • To run the main Slack bot (main.py):

     gunicorn main:flask_app
     # or for development:
     # python main.py

   • To run the terminal chat (cinethinker.py):

     python cinethinker.py

   • Ensure your Slack App is configured to send events to the correct /slack/events endpoint of your running Flask application.

Note