You may also create a custom dataset that captures the speech between you and your friends and build a chatbot that speaks like yourself! Since a lot of people are interested in building their own bots based on their favorite characters, I updated my tutorial to include an in-depth explanation on how to gather text data for any character, fictional or non-fictional.
😳 You can read more about my deployment post-mortem in this post.
I'm honestly surprised by how popular it became – there were 5.9k views of my previous tutorial, plus, when I deployed my bot to a 1k+ user server, people flooded it with 300+ messages in an hour, effectively crashing the bot. My chatbot project started as a joke with a friend when we were playing video games. Here is an example of the Discord AI chatbot that we will have built by the end of this tutorial. If you want, you can dive right into my video tutorial on YouTube – or read on for more details.