Niall2 is a simple chatbot that collects statistics on sentences you type and tries to construct meaningful replies. The original Niall was an Amiga program I liked, and spent a lot of time tweaking and reimplementing in the 1990s. I initially wrote this version in Python in under an hour, from memory, to explain how ChatGPT works to my daughter.

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/gbenson/niall2.git
cd niall2

Create a virtual environment:

python3 -m venv venv
. venv/bin/activate

Upgrade pip and setuptools:

pip install --upgrade pip setuptools

Install in editable mode:

pip install -e .[dev]

Test it:

pytest