Discord BuddyBot

My goal was to create a virtual bot (conversation simulator) that responds to discord users who have added my BuddyBot to their group.

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Inspiration

Talking with Google Gemini can be very entertaining, but can you include your friends in that conversation? Throughout this hackathon experience, I primarily focused on creating a friendly conversation with AI and other friends. We have all used discord to stay in touch with our friends. But did you know that it is possible to use the app (discord) to also include a robot (Gemini) into your friend group?

What it does

My bot is the virtual bot which can join each group (server) and start to continue a conversation with multiple users. It will act as another friend in the group chat.

How we built it

I created a bot called “BuddyBot” and made it interactable using python and Gemini API programming. Users who have added “BuddyBot” can interact with it, and it will act as a knowledgeable and friendly person.

Challenges we ran into

As the bot becomes more popular and gets more requests, the server might not respond due to an overload. To overcome this issue, I will implement multithreading or multiprocessing in the system.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Any Discord Server Admins can add this bot (BuddyBot) to their Discord Server and everyone in that server could be able to access it. As long as I have the bot program running on my computer, any group with my bot can be able to interact with it. The uniqueness of this project is that you can include the BuddyBot with your group of friends in a group chat. When you are talking with your friends, your buddy bot will also act as a friend and join in on the conversation. For example, Google Gemini can only conversate person to person, but BuddyBot can collaborate with a large group of people in the same group chat.

What we learned

We learned how to integrate Google Gemini into a Discord Bot and make it collaborate with multiple users on Discord.

What's next for Discord BuddyBot

The Discord Bot I have made as of now has features to have a lively conversation with other users. The bot I have made can be used by anyone by them simply adding it to their server. In the future, I can add more features that can make the Discord Bot more interactable and I can also train the AI and make it respond in a more efficient manner by training itself from the previous texts. It could then know what we like, and it could understand our sense of humor and other qualities.

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