AI Chat UI (Proof of Concept)

This demonstrates a simple UI (using Streamlit's Chat elements) that uses interacts with an AI via an api (Google's Gemini model here).

Demo

Install

0. Ideally create a new Python environment (venv, conda, etc.).
   • Tested on Python 3.11.5
1. Run pip install -r requirements.txt to install relevant packages.
2. Get an API key from Google's Google AI Studio formerly MakerSuite.
   • See the Gemini API docs for more details.
3. Add your API key as an environment variable called GOOGLE_API_KEY.
   • If you are on a Mac, this likely is editing ~/.zshrc or ~/.bashrc and adding export GOOGLE_API_KEY=... with your own key. Make sure you reload the shell.
   • If you're having trouble and like to just get it to work, you can change the app script app_chat.py so the variable GOOGLE_API_KEY is set to the string value of your key. Note this is a bit more risky but probably fine if you're testing out without public access.
4. Run in your terminal: streamlit run app_chat.py.
   • When using a Python environment, make sure streamlit is the correct one associated with your environment. Seen some weirdness before with conda and the shell not picking up the correct streamlit; had to manually call it with something like MyUser/conda/envs/my_env/bin/streamlit.
5. Browser should open where you can now interact with the UI! Otherwise, you might have to go to http://localhost:8501/ manually.