Personal Private Telegram AI Assistant

This is the code repository which accompanies the article "How I built a personal Telegram AI Assistant in an Afternoon" on medium. Find the article here.

Run the Bot

Clone the project

  git clone https://github.com/deichrenner/PersonalPrivateAIAssistant.git

Create a virtual environment

  python3 -m venv .venv

Activate the virtual environment

  source .venv/bin/activate

Install dependencies

  pip install -r requirements.txt

Install ollama

  curl https://ollama.ai/install.sh | sh 
  ollama serve

Get the Telegram API token from the @BotFather and the API hash from the Telegram online center (see medium article for details) and add it to the .env file.

Start the Telegram bot

  python bot.py

Environment Variables

To run this project, you will need to add the required environment variables to the .env file. Copy the contents of the .env.example file and add the required API keys and tokens.