🧑‍💻 Telegram Receptionist

This is a friendly AI-powered receptionist bot for Telegram. It uses Ollama to generate short, engaging replies. I created this bot because I receive a lot of spam and messages from scammers, and engaging with them brings whimsy to my life.

Features

• 🧠 Uses a rotating set of strategies to guide responses
• 🤝 Replies only to users not in your Telegram contacts
• 💬 Keeps responses under 200 characters
• 🔌 Runs locally using Ollama — no OpenAI key required

Requirements

• Python 3.8+
• Telegram API credentials
• Ollama installed and running locally
• The mistral model pulled via Ollama

Setup

Get Telegram API credentials

1. Go to https://my.telegram.org and sign in.
2. Find API development tools and create a new application (the info doesn't matter).

Set up Ollama

1. Install Ollama.
2. Open a command prompt and run ollama pull mistral.
3. Run ollama run mistral.

Installation (Windows)

1. Download the latest release .exe from Releases and run it.
2. Follow the instructions.

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If this project was valuable to you, please feel free to fund my matcha addiction 🍵