Company
Date Published
Author
Dhruv Patel
Word count
2039
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

You can now chat with famous personalities through Twilio WhatsApp and Node.js using ChatGPT as the AI assistant, allowing users to interact with icons like Aristotle or Drake in a virtual conversation. To set up this service, you need a Twilio account, an OpenAI API key, Node.js v16+, and the ngrok CLI. You'll also need to sign up for a WhatsApp Business Profile and submit a request to enable your Twilio numbers for WhatsApp. The process involves setting up a Node.js application, installing dependencies, creating a folder called "famous-personalities" to store all project files, generating an AI personality response using the OpenAI Node.js Library and Twilio's Node Helper Library, and running the code with ngrok to create a publicly accessible URL that directs WhatsApp messages to your Node.js app.