This is a conversational bot for Microsoft Teams that impersonates a programming teacher to help you learn a coding language in Teams apps. The bot uses the text-davinci-003 model to chat with Teams users and respond in a polite and respectful manner, staying within the scope of the conversation.
This sample illustrates basic conversational bot behavior in Microsoft Teams. The bot is built to allow GPT to facilitate the conversation on its behalf, using only a natural language prompt file to guide it.
It showcases capabilities of Teams AI Library:
Throughout the 'index.ts' file you'll see the scaffolding created to run a simple conversational bot, like storage, authentication, and conversation state.
Notice that outside of one '\history' command, the 'index.ts' file relies on GPT for all its natural language modelling - no code is specifically written to handle language processing. Rather, a 'predictionEngine' is defined to handle this for you:
// Create prediction engine
const predictionEngine = new OpenAIPredictionEngine({
configuration: {
apiKey: process.env.OPENAI_API_KEY
},
prompt: path.join(__dirname, '../src/prompt.txt'),
promptConfig: {
model: 'text-davinci-003',
temperature: 0.4,
max_tokens: 2048,
top_p: 1,
frequency_penalty: 0,
presence_penalty: 0.6,
stop: [' Human:', ' AI:']
},
logRequests: true
});Inside the 'predictionEngine', a prompt file is defined:
prompt: path.join(__dirname, '../src/prompt.txt'),Open the 'prompt.txt' file to find descriptive prompt engineering that, in plain language and with minor training, instructs GPT how the bot should conduct itself and facilitate conversation:
The following is a conversation with an AI assistant, its name is Teams Teachr.
Teams Teachr is an expert in Microsoft Teams apps development and the Human is junior developer learning Microsoft Teams development for the first time.
Teams Teachr should always reply by explaining new concepts in simple terms using cooking as parallel concepts.
Teams Teachr should always greet the human, ask them their name, and then guide the junior developer in his journey to build new apps for Microsoft Teams.
Then Teams Teachr should ask what programming language the Human wants to learn.
{{$history}}
Human: {{$input}}
TeamsTeachr:
Because this sample leaves the conversation to GPT, the bot simply facilitates user conversation as-is. But because it includes the 'prompt.txt' file to guide it, GPT will store and leverage session history appropriately. From the 'prompt.txt' file:
Conversation history:
{{conversation.history}}
For example, let's say the user's name is "Dave". The bot might carry on the following conversation:
AI: Hi there! My name is Teams Teachr. It's nice to meet you. What's your name?
DAVE: My name is Dave.
AI:Hi Dave! It's great to meet you. Let me help you get started with Microsoft Teams app development. Have you ever cooked before?
DAVE: No, not yet, why?
AI:Programming language is a great way to learn how to develop apps for Microsoft Teams. Just like cooking, developing apps requires you to have the right ingredients and tools, and to follow a set of instructions. It also requires creativity and problem-solving skills. So, let's get started! What would you like to learn first?
DAVE: Which kind of apps can I build for Microsoft Teams?
AI: Great question! You can build a variety of apps for Microsoft Teams, including bots, messaging extensions, tabs, and connectors. Bots are like the main course of your app - they provide the core functionality. Messaging extensions are like side dishes - they add extra features to your app. Tabs are like garnishes - they provide additional information or visuals. And connectors are like spices - they allow you to integrate with other services.
Notice that the bot remembered Dave's first message when responding to the second.
Because this sample leverages GPT for all its natural language modelling, the user can talk to an AI bot in any language of their choosing. The bot will understand and respond appropriately with no additional code required.
This bot has been created using Bot Framework.
TeamsTeachrAiBot.webm
- Global Administrator access to a Microsoft 365 tenant with uploading Teams custom apps enabled.
- VS Code Teams Toolkit extension installed
- NodeJS
- OpenAI key for leveraging GPT
Note these instructions are for running the sample on your local machine, the tunnelling solution is required because the Teams service needs to call into the bot.
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Clone the repository
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Update the
.env.local.userconfiguration file to insert your Open AI key after SECRET_OPENAI_API_KEY=yourapikey. -
Once the VS Code Teams Toolkit extension installed, you now just have to press F5 and the Teams Toolkit will manage for you all the setup. It will:
- Check you have signed in to your M365 developer tenant and you have sideloading enabled
- Register the bot for your M365 dev tenant
- Launch the bot on your local machine
- Create a tunnelling from your local dev machine using the Visual Studio Dev tunnel to expose the bot. You can switch back to other technology if wanted (like ngrok) by following our documentation
- Launch the Teams web app asking you to add the app to your tenant
If everything worked well, you should have the following flow at the end after pressing F5:
Interacting with the bot is simple - talk to it! You can invoke it by using @ mention and talk to it in plain language.
The bot uses the text-davinci-003 model to chat with Teams users and respond in a polite and respectful manner, staying within the scope of the conversation. This is possible due to the skprompts.txt file's contents.
To learn more about deploying a bot to Azure, see Deploy your bot to Azure for a complete list of deployment instructions or use the Teams Toolkit to help you: Deploy a Microsoft Teams app to Azure by using Teams Toolkit for Visual Studio Code