Msn Chatbot

Connect MSN Messenger (AKA. Windows Live Messenger) 8.5 to ChatGPT for your own nostalgia shot.

This chatbot is configured to act as a cibercafe administrator in the year 2007 in Chile.

Installation

• Install MSNChatbot.plsc to Messenger Plus scripts.

• Set OPENAI_API_KEY env.

• Install deps mix deps.get

• Run iex -S mix run --no-halt

• Create an account in https://escargot.chat/ and use a patched MSN Messenger client to use.

• Configure lib/prelude.ex with your own settings.

How?

This bot uses the Messenger Plus 4.83 scripts to trigger events. Calls localhost:3000 with the params and the server calls OpenAI for the response.

This is a limited approach, a better approach would be creating a whole client using some libs like https://github.com/RayTF/MSNPSharp but since this was just a fun experiment I will leave that job to others.

Why?

Because is fun to see old technology working again, and with some powerups like ChatGPT.

Credits

A Chatbot that connects with ChatGPT using Messenger PLUS! as a bridge for MSN Messenger 8.5. Created in 2023 by Camilo Castro. Elixir Chile https://elixircl.github.io